I noticed this week that the rebuilt former "Drum Hill Rotary"> at the junction of US 3 and MA 4 in Chelmsford MA has traffic> signals controlling traffic leading _out_ of the square, at> least on MA 4, in both directions. They are located at about> the point where the lane from the square joins the lane coming> the other way to form the two lane road. What is their purpose?> They can only keep people from entering the two lane roads> leading away, and any traffic stopped at the light would back up> and block the square. There is no cross street/ driveway or> even pedestrian crosswalks, nor is there any light stopping > traffic the other way (there is, of course, a light a little> past there at the corners of the square itself)

moroney@world.std.­spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) wrote in>news:d3i430$f0q$­2@pcls4.std.com:

Modern will be putting in pedestrian crosswalks this spring/summer.

For those of you who don't know the area, Chelmsford High School >(and a fair amount of residential) is near there, south of Route 3, >and there is a lot of retail just north of Route 3. There are >already a lot of people - including kids - who are walking from the >school to the retail area, through the Drum Hill Square.