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WORCESTER—Councilors return to City Hall Tuesday with an agenda that moves fast but lands heavy, touching on how residents get around the city, how the city responds when things go wrong, and whether some of Worcester’s long-standing systems are still serving the people they were designed to help.
Transportation issues are expected to dominate the night’s discussion, with a dense cluster of agenda items focused on commuter rail policy, pedestrian safety, and traffic enforcement. Several of those items stem from chairman’s orders by Mayor Joe Petty related to the Worcester/Framingham MBTA Line, including requests to explore forming a working group made up of the six communities served by the line to coordinate advocacy for infrastructure and service improvements.
Councilors are also asking the city manager to work with that proposed group and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau to support the collection of Worcester-specific ridership data, including targeted MBTA commuter rail surveys. Together, the requests reflect a broader effort to strengthen Worcester’s role in regional transit planning and provide councilors with clearer data as they engage state transportation officials.
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