Traffic Enforcement Leads to Testy Medford Council Exchange
Councilor Marks, Officer MacGilvray argue over Medford traffic enforcement figures.
Comments by Medford City Councilor Michael Marks about city enforcement of traffic of violations drew the ire of a Medford Police officer, who engaged in a fiery exchange with Marks at Tuesday's council meeting. Marks brought up a recent WBZ I-Team report that highlighted the cities and towns where Massachusetts residents may be most likely to get a moving violation. Both in terms of total moving violations and violations per capita, Medford ranked dead last of over 30 municipalities surveyed by WBZ. While Brookline was tops 26,202 moving violations, Medford had just 631 during the same time period. "I was quite appalled to find out...Medford was the very last community on the list," Marks said. He quoted Brookline Police Chief Daniel O'…
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benti55
10:37 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Kept our taxes low? Mine have doubled since I got my house. The police are in a building that should be condemned. It is a disgrace that people paid to protect us have to work in those conditions. As for F Mulligans comment, yes it will stay the same as long as McGlynn is in office.He is the one who costs our city $. We have a curb to curb ordinance for utilities that dig up streets. Does he … more ›