Thank you for your concern, this issue has been received by our department. We will look into this issue further and resolve it accordingly.

Unfortunately, the City does not install speed bumps on public ways.

Every day municipalities face problems with speeding drivers. For decades, speed humps were the only traffic-calming solution available. Today, the antiquated speed hump—a traditionally popular solution to speeding drivers—has become controversial.
The shortcomings of and frustrations associated with speed humps. Municipalities are steering away from speed humps for the following reasons:

Are expensive to install and expensive to maintain
Interfere with response times of emergency vehicles—Each speed hump costs fire trucks ten seconds in response time.
Reduce property values—Prospective homebuyers reject home sites near speed humps.
Increase noise levels—Speed humps usher in a constant barrage of scraping cars and engines revving over the humps.
Increase wear and tear on residential and commercial vehicles—Speed humps are a source of excessive wear on tires, brakes, suspension systems, shock absorbers and rattle dashboards.
Expensive to remove—Municipalities, under pressure by citizens and enforced by the courts, have been forced to remove speed humps at great expense to tax payers.

Additionally, some have observed that speed humps do not change driver behavior and encourage other dangerous driving behaviors, such as going “off road” to avoid the humps.

I will reassign this to the police department so that they can increase patrols in your area.

Thank you

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. This channel is not monitored by our dispatch. I would recommend contact GPD directly at 978-283-1212 if you observe violations in the future.

Rose - DPW Admin assigned this issue to Joseph Fitzgerald - Deputy Chief of Police

Thank you Rose. I figured it didn’t hurt to ask

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