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CRT 2016 #32 · Agenda item attachment · Jun 27 2016
a report from Councillor Dennis J. Carlone, Co-Chair of the Ordinance Committee, for a public hearing held on June 14, 2016 to discuss a proposed amendment to the Municipal Code in Chapter 12.12 entitled “Street Excavations and Obstructions” by adding a new section 12.12.065 entitled “Maintenance of Safe Passage – Proper Marking of Hazards and Trench Closure Required.”
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City of Cambridge
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IN CITY COUNCIL
March 21, 2016
COUNCILLOR KELLEY
VICE MAYOR MCGOVERN
COUNCILLOR TOOMEY
WHEREAS:
The City's responsibility to keep streets passable and reasonably safe during
construction must respond to the growing number of Greater Boston residents that
choose biking as their primary or supplementary form of transportation; and
WHEREAS:
Depressions, open trenches, vertical features at the intersection of milled and un-milled
pavement, as well as gas, water, and sewer access pipes can be truly hazardous to a
cyclists; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That Chapter 12.12 of the Municipal Code, entitled "Street Excavations and
Obstruction," be amended by adding a new section 12.12.065 entitled "Maintenance of
safe passage-proper marking of hazards and trench closure required," which reads as
follows:
12.12.065 - Maintenance of safe passage—Proper marking of hazards and trench
closure required.
A.
Whenever any street is opened, occupied. obstructed or encumbered by any
department of the City, or any other party to include contractors and
subcontractors. workers much ensure that hazards in the work area must be
clearly marked and safely managed to mitigate dangers to cyclists by:
1. Mark all vertical surfaces of 1 inch or more that are more than 30.
degrees off of horizontal with bright yellow paint on the entire vertical
surface(s) and at least ½ of the horizontal surface;
B. At all seam areas, where the roadwork is milled up to existing surface, pavement:
will be either ground at no greater than a 30 degree angle or have a ramp of
asphalt fill ensuring that the contact point between the milled work and the
existing surface has a ramp of no more than 30 degrees and the entire length of
the seam area will be marked with bright yellow paint:
1. Ensuring that the paint marking hazards is refreshed as needed to
maintain the required coverage:
2. Ensuring that all open trench or patching work will be closed by the end
of business on Fridays except when weekend work is scheduled.
C.
Violations of the paint requirement would be viewed as clear evidence of
negligence on the part of whatever party was doing the street work.
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ORDERED:
That the proposed ordinance amendment be referred to the Ordinance Committee for
hearing and report.
In City Council March 21, 2016.
Adopted by the affirmative vote of nine members.
Attest:- Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk
A true copy;
anna P. Xope
ATTEST:-
Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk
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