Finance Committee - 06/03/2020 Page 5
Alderman Klee
Thank you, | appreciate you doing especially that one at night, because that is an extraordinary intersection
there. This area of Amherst Street is right near where the Fire Station is also and that’s also a concern of mine,
if they need to get to get through. So would you bringing everything down to one lane of traffic. | am assuming
it's on the opposite side of the fire - because you talked about Vernon Street and so on. So | am assuming it is
on the opposite side of the fire station. But again, | am just kind of concerned about the traffic, this backs up
terribly on some days. So do we have detours or anything else like that, that would be part of this?
Mr. Hudson
Yes, it is on a case-by-case and | honestly can’t speak specific to that, | am not familiar with all the details of it.
They do provide us a traffic control plan and we review it And then we proceed. Favorably, because of the
(audio cuts out) traffic is lower than it has been historically. It’s unfortunate to cause any delays but we are
fortunate that traffic is lower, and we are able to do more probably during the day than we would otherwise.
Alderman Klee
And just one more comment. If at all possible, if we could put up signage before we are going to do it to kind
of give people a warning in any of these areas, because of the long delay and the heavily routed areas, | would
appreciate that. Thank you so much.
Alderman O’Brien
Mr. Mayor if | may, Alderman O’Brien
Mayor Donchess
Alderman O’Brien.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to follow up with Alderman Klee, to Mr. Hudson if | may, it has been my
experience being on the fire department in the past, we did used to get and | imagine this still occurs, a daily
call of certain projects that are going on so emergency providers such as the fire, the police and the
ambulance, do know the different type of traffic patterns that are affected. So you do take great pains to
ensure public safety in this, correct.
Mr. Hudson
Yes, yes, we do our best, you know, sometimes we fall short, but we do do our best to let everybody know
where we are going to be working and we will try to provide advance notice to the public in these cases.
Mayor Donchess
Alderwoman Lu?
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you Mayor Donchess. Would you just tell me, did you say that this was discovered during the sewer
repair project?
