Boston PIC Approves Seven Petitions Including 51-Speed-Hump Roxbury Package

BOSTON — April 13, 2023 — Boston's Public Improvement Commission approved seven street and utility petitions at its April 13 meeting, including a 51-speed-hump Neighborhood Slow Streets package for Roxbury's Moreland-Mount Pleasant area. The commission unanimously approved a joint City Transportation and Public Works petition covering more than a dozen Roxbury streets, installing speed humps to support a new 20-mile-per-hour neighborhood speed limit, along with raised intersections at Moreland-Fairland and Moreland-Copeland streets and a widened Mount Pleasant Avenue sidewalk designed to accommodate a future Bluebikes station. The board also cleared telecommunications conduit petitions by Cambridge Network Solutions and Extinet Systems, the latter spanning 1,835 linear feet of Washington Street in West Roxbury, where Extinet's Arthur Pino confirmed the company would bear full responsibility for remarking MBTA bus lanes. The meeting closed with a new-business preview of the Cummins Highway reconstruction in Mattapan — described by Public Works engineer Jeffrey Alexis as the city's largest capital-funded reconstruction project featuring green infrastructure, covering a 4,500-foot corridor and including a new roundabout, more than 80 street trees, and lane reductions from four lanes to two — set to return for a formal public hearing on April 27.