STATE HOUSE — As Boston officials seek to lower speed limits on their streets, one lawmaker cautioned Tuesday that the problem they are seeking to remedy could be a symptom of a broader "crisis" in transportation infrastructure.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously in April to lower speed limits on thickly settled or business district city streets from 30 miles per hour to 20, with the maximum speed in school zones dropping to 15. That proposal (H 4349), filed by Rep. Daniel Hunt of Dorchester as a home rule petition, is now before the Legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation.
With the clock running out on formal House and Senate sessions, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito on Tuesday called on the Senate to follow the House's lead and take up the administration's municipal modernization bill.
"The municipal modernization bill has a tremendous amount of support in the Legislature, you could see the unanimous vote in the House," Polito told the News Service on Tuesday. "I'm hopeful that the Senate will make it a priority before recessing at the end of the year because it is an integral part of helping communities succeed and we can't do it with just dollars of investment alone."
