This past fall, the two committees approved the new count-down pedestrian lights outside of Out-Of-Town News on a trial basis. The lights were installed in the final days of December.
Travis McCready, the University's director of community relations for Cambridge, sits on each of these boards and works closely with Cambridge officials on issues in the university area.
McCready said the Palmer-Sherman tragedy has spurred efforts to improve Square safety.
"That one accident sparked a great amount of concern here in our office," McCready says. "With a poignant, tragic occurrence like that, it opens people's minds about doing something, but this is one issue which the city and University are always concerned with."
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McCready concurs with Wynne that the intersection of Eliot Street and Mt. Auburn Street in front of Charlie's Kitchen is a danger zone.
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