Asked the City Manager to work with the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and any other appropriate City departments on the feasibility and cost of installing computerized traffic signals along the City’s main corridors

How it started

Jun 19, 2017 · Proposed by Vice Mayor Devereux and Councillor Mazen: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 19, 2017 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Dennis Carlone; carried on a voice vote.

the aforementioned order by adding in the last paragraph after the word “emissions” the words “as well as an improvement of traffic flow, highlighting Mass Transit and emergency vehicles.”

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Jun 19, 2017, p. 18.

Jun 19, 2017 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

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Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

📨 Answered: the report came back as CMA 2017 #261 (Oct 16, 2017).

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

June 19, 2017

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department and any other appropriate City departments to report back to the Council on the feasibility and cost of installing computerized traffic signals along the city’s main corridors; and be it further ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to work with appropriate staff to report back to the Council on the potential savings in CO2 emissions by implementing this system.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 19, 2017