Plymouth has over 300 miles of roads, only Boston, Springfield, Worcester and Framingham have as many. One roadway that is projected to be one of the busiest, though only about a mile long is Obery Street, a street that is a connector to Route 3 and home to the Registry of Deeds, the Court House, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, the County Farm, North High School and now under construction are two roundabouts.
Bobbi Clark has more:
DPW Director Jonathan Beder says the Obery Street project has been underway for about two years and is part of a transportation improvement program:
“The town received a grant for this project of almost six million dollars. Town Meeting funded the project during the fall special Town Meeting, which was in December of 2017. The original fall Town Meeting in October did not pass this, but the Board of Selectmen brought it back.”
So why two roundabouts?
“Notice where the roundabouts are: there’s one at Plymouth North and then one at the Registry of Deeds, so in terms of traffic calming, congestion, all those type of things teamed with pedestrian use in that area, it is pretty busy. Those roundabouts are far more effective and efficient than a signal would have been.”
The project also includes new sidewalks, new signals, new drainage and the net cost to the town is…
“The Town of Plymouth paid about two hundred fifty thousand, but the state covered a little bit over five point five million dollars for the project.”
