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Speaker 1: The Appleton Church and Middlesex Streets intersections are a key

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Speaker 1: gateway to downtown Lowell, as well as Gorham and Central

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Speaker 1: Streets that are also a gateway to accidents, crashes and fatalities.

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Speaker 2: Is very, very dangerous, you know.

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Speaker 3: I've seen multiple accidents.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Dave and I are standing outside of duncan

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Speaker 1: On Central where one of its pillars was knocked down

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Speaker 1: by a car recently.

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Speaker 4: Hit this pole right here, you know. So I mean

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Speaker 4: it is, It's very dangerous. It needs to be It

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Speaker 4: needs to be changed.

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Speaker 1: And changes are coming, as nearly five million dollars are

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Speaker 1: approved by MASTOT to fund infrastructure updates for the intersections,

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Speaker 1: bicycle lanes, sidewalks and pedestrian crossings in Lowell. James Rojas

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