City Tests Weekend Closure to Slow Wampatuck Road Speeding

QUINCY — Neighbors along Wampatuck Road are pressing the city for a lasting fix to nightly speeding and drag racing after a weekend road closure failed to quiet the winding roadway, while City Hall separately asked residents to submit photos for this year's Candlelight Vigil Memorial video.

TOWN HALL The city's News Flash page is asking Quincy families to submit photographs for this year's Annual Candlelight Vigil Memorial video, part of the city's annual tribute to residents' loved ones.

ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS NBC Boston's story, headlined "'They fly up and down the street': Frequent drag races disturb Quincy residents," reports that Wampatuck Road neighbors describe near-nightly engine revving and racing that has worn on the block for years. (read it at https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/they-fly-up-and-down-the-street-frequent-drag-races-disturb-quincy-residents/3982200/)

CBS Boston, in a story also carried by Patch under the headline "Quincy Neighbors Say Weekend Closure Not Enough To Stop Speeding On Winding Roadway: 'It's Constant'," reports that a new weekend closure of Wampatuck and Chickatawbut roads has done little to stop a speeding problem neighbors say has persisted for decades. (read it at https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/quincy-wampatuck-chickatawbut-road-closure-speeding/)