Medford panel votes to combine holiday meetings
Medford's disability commission combines holiday meetings and starts ranking crosswalks for ADA upgrades.
City Meetings · Meeting of September 23, 2026
Medford's disability commission combines holiday meetings and starts ranking crosswalks for ADA upgrades. The Commission for Persons with Disabilities voted 5-0 to merge its November and December sessions into a Dec. 9 meeting, then spent most of the night helping engineering consultant Todd prioritize a roughly $40,000 "casino" grant for accessible pedestrian signal buttons at nine intersections left off a separate Massachusetts Department of Transportation upgrade project. Boston Avenue at Winthrop Street, near Tufts University housing, and the High Street crossing at the Medford Public Library emerged as early priorities.
Commissioner Anthony Andriala said he had gotten no response after two outreach attempts about the city website's accessibility, calling it "deeply concerning." Disability Specialist Nicholas Kairinge flagged that snow removal can bury push buttons, prompting Todd to agree some locations should get pole extensions added to the project scope.
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Source: the City Meetings meeting of September 23, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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