Will new turnpike signs help Newton Corner and West Newton interchanges?

Clint Schuckel, associate City Engineer, will present proposed signage improvement plans around the Newton Corner Rotary (Exit 17) and West Newton Square (Exit 16) at 6:30pm on Wednesday, November 17, in Room 202 at City Hall.

Residents and merchants — and anyone who utilizes these rotary-style interchanges — are invited to comment. If you have questions ahead of the meeting, please contact David Koses, (617) 796-1133, dkoses@newtonma.gov.

In 2006, a committee of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization presented a study of the Newton Corner interchange. The complete 80-page report is available for download.

Background: Construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike in the 1960s skewered four village centers: Newton Corner, Newtonville, West Newton, and Auburndale. Interchanges were constructed in two of those village centers, which have coped with traffic entering and exiting I-90 for nearly 50 years.