Announcing Grove Street/Route 139 Intersection Changes 6/15/22

Grove Street, Hanover, MA

At yesterday’s initial meeting of the newly established Route 139 Action Committee (June 14, 2022), the committee unanimously supported a recommendation to create “Right Turn Only” conditions from the north and south Grove Street approaches onto Route 139. Most of the accidents at that intersection are the result of cars turning left and/or going straight through the intersection.

These new measures will be fully effective within the next 4-6 weeks. Prior to implementing this change, we will engage in an aggressive public notification campaign utilizing many communication platforms including our electronic message boards placed on Grove Street. Drivers can also anticipate heavy traffic enforcement at this intersection to help incentivize compliance with these newly established conditions. 

Certainly, this one improvement is not the silver bullet solution to all the problems along Route 139, but it will be a traffic safety improvement and hopefully prevent accidents.