Ward 6: William Harris
Twenty-four people have been killed while walking and biking in Quincy since 2015. How do you see yourself working to increase bicycle and pedestrian safety throughout Quincy?
I have all ready started taking action, please read the Patriot ledger article to follow Quincy’s Harris targets cut-through motorists with bid to lower speed limit Sean Philip Cotterscotter@patriotledger.com QUINCY – Ward 6 City Councilor William Harris is looking to put the brakes on drivers who use Quincy side streets as cut-throughs as they try to avoid sluggish traffic on Quincy’s main thoroughfares. He wants to see the speed limit in residential areas lowered from 30 mph to 25. On Monday night, the city council is scheduled to discuss a measure that would empower the council to reduce the speed limit in parts of the city. Harris said he has received many complaints about rush-hour cutting through during his year as a member of the city council. “Those are the neighborhoods that I’m looking to knock to 25 (mph),” he said, saying he’d eventually like the speed limit lowered even more, to 20 mph. Harris hopes the lower speed limit and strong enforcement would discourage people from cutting through Quincy to avoid traffic congestion. “The theory that I have is that our traffic problem is from people who are coming from (farther down) the South Shore,” said Harris, whose district includes North Quincy, Squantum and Marina Bay. Chris Walker, a spokesman for Mayor Thomas Koch, said the administration is fully in support of dropping the speed limit to 25 mph. This ordinance was unanimously voted into law, and is a major step into protecting our residences of Quincy. I will continue to seek more effective measures to keep all people safe.
How will you support building more separated and protected bike infrastructure in Quincy?
Simply put. I will support all reasonable infrastructure in Quincy.
Currently, only a few of our schools have partnered with the state funded Safe Routes to School program. What will you do to bring the Safe Routes to School curriculum and programs into our schools across the city?
I will support any safe routes to school as long as our children are not going to be put in harms way.
Do you support measures to calm traffic in Quincy? (i.e. speed humps, curb extensions, etc. Learn more here) . If so, what would you do enact these measures in Quincy?
I already have addressed this. in Question 1. but as I have said, I have all ready started taking action, please read the Patriot ledger article to follow Quincy’s Harris targets cut-through motorists with bid to lower speed limit Sean Philip Cotterscotter@patriotledger.com QUINCY – Ward 6 City Councilor William Harris is looking to put the brakes on drivers who use Quincy side streets as cut-throughs as they try to avoid sluggish traffic on Quincy’s main thoroughfares. He wants to see the speed limit in residential areas lowered from 30 mph to 25. On Monday night, the city council is scheduled to discuss a measure that would empower the council to reduce the speed limit in parts of the city. Harris said he has received many complaints about rush-hour cutting through during his year as a member of the city council. “Those are the neighborhoods that I’m looking to knock to 25 (mph),” he said, saying he’d eventually like the speed limit lowered even more, to 20 mph. Harris hopes the lower speed limit and strong enforcement would discourage people from cutting through Quincy to avoid traffic congestion. “The theory that I have is that our traffic problem is from people who are coming from (farther down) the South Shore,” said Harris, whose district includes North Quincy, Squantum and Marina Bay. Chris Walker, a spokesman for Mayor Thomas Koch, said the administration is fully in support of dropping the speed limit to 25 mph. This ordinance was unanimously voted into law, and is a major step into protecting our residences of Quincy. I will continue to seek more effective measures to keep all people safe.
Quincy has had a Complete Streets policy in place since 2018 but has not yet created the called for oversight committee tasked with reviewing the city’s progress and creating metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of Complete Streets projects. What will you do to support the full implementation of the city’s Complete Streets Policy?
Work with the Administration to achieve this.
Candidate Contact Information
William Harris
74 Ashworth Rd
Council phone number 617-376-1356
Campaign Website: https://youtu.be/UGJq7wCPOP4?si=_5iBTUI0bOnLIF9n
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