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Boston to remove some of its new humps on Allandale Street in Jamaica Plain

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By adamg on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 8:00pm

City Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) reports that possibly as early as tomorrow, BTD crews will be out along the Boston stretch of Allandale Road to remove some of the 13 speed humps they installed earlier this month between the Faulkner Hospital ER entrance and the Allandale Farm entrance.

And some of the remaining humps will basically be filed down, BTD said after confirming that, yes, all the complaints from motorists - many forwarded by Weber and state Rep. Bill MacGregor - had a point.

An engineering review determined that the speed humps built on Allandale Street are not working as intended and have reduced speeds lower than the target of 20 mph.

BTD estimates the work could take two weeks, if the weather cooperates.

The department installed the humps as part of Boston's "safety surge" program to use speed humps and other measures to try to slow traffic on side streets.

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Allandale Street
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Comments

By Anon on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 8:31pm.

Good use of public money.

By Ron Newman on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 8:32pm.

Whoever came up with the plan to put 13 speed bumps on this small street needs to explain why.

By emac on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 8:44pm.

Comeuppance for all the shitty driving, finally the pendulum swings the other way. 13 in half a mile — it’s funny!

By Angry Dan on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 5:50pm.

all the shitty driving

Agreed. This is the only enforcement option available to slow down motorists in this city. I congratulate the mayor on rolling these out everywhere they are needed.

By JP Resident on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:08pm.

No one will explain why because no one asked why in the first place.

I love that our city is asking residents to pay extra property taxes to balance the budget and then wastes money building this and pays money removing. By love, I mean hate. By city, I mean Wu.

By Fenway Crank on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 3:46pm.

aka Mayor Gridlock

By anon on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 8:46pm.

Shouldn't they do engineering review beforehand

By JP Resident on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 11:09pm.

But we’re living in a post-fact world

By Jiggles on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 9:09pm.

Unbelievable that a city councilor and legislator had to brow beat Wu’s administration to fix this fuck up. Where’s the accountability?

By Pete Nice on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 9:10pm.

Knew this would happen.

By Waquiot on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 10:28pm.

Is how responsive government works.

By anon on Fri, 01/31/2025 - 10:55pm.

How fast things can happen with municipal government when Mass DOT and the MBTA aren't in your way .

By sartreswaiter on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 7:58am.

DCR

By R on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 8:18am.

The issue with these humps wasnt the number of them, its that they were larger than others in the area. They weren't 20 MPH humps, you had to slow down to 15 or maybe less to not be thrown around in your car, probably damaging your suspension too.

If they were the same 20 MPH humps on say forest hills street, they would have been just fine.

Those are smooth, do calm traffic speeds, and are only mildly annoying.

These on Allandale were absurd.

By Anon on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 9:44am.

I am sure the paving contractor that installed the bumps will get paid very well to remove the bumps and restore the street. This work should not even be done during the winter it is too cold for the asphalt.

By Rich Shelley on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 11:37am.

How about taking some of those speed bumps and placing them along the stretch from Grove St. to Allandale Farm - that straight-away is where most of the build-up in speed comes from!

By anon on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 4:06pm.

cheaper to just leave plenty of potholes.

By anon on Sat, 02/01/2025 - 5:46pm.

Good to see MacGregor actually doing something other than nonstop photo ops.