Diagram displayed in City Hall Tuesday shows proposed rotaries as part of traffic improvement plan for new Market Basket store.
BY THOR JOURGENSEN
LYNN — Two rotaries, one on each end of Federal Street, will anchor the new Market Basket store and ease traffic flow around it, city officials said Tuesday.
Site owner Charles Patsios, EDIC/Lynn executive director James Cowdell and City Councilors Peter Capano and Jay Walsh listened as traffic consultants explained how the proposed rotaries will funnel traffic where Federal, Waterhill, Marion and Boston streets meet and where Western Avenue, South Street and North and South Common streets join Federal.
The state contributed $2 million last year to pay for traffic improvements and sidewalk work. The Federal Street Market Basket is expected to employ as many as 400 workers and is scheduled to open next year. General Electric’s long-vacant Factory of the Future was demolished earlier this year to make way for construction.
Patsios said the proposed traffic plan makes sense.
“They tell me this is what will work and I believe them,” he said.
Capano said the plan will ease traffic congestion on some of the city’s busiest streets while providing safer pedestrian crossing points.
