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There is increased pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the Jeffries Point neighborhood in East Boston due to the “new” apartment buildings (particularly the Portside ant East Pier and Clippership complexes), the Tall Ship, and the expanded Piers Park. But there are no stop signs along the busy Sumner Street at two of the main intersections used to pass through in order to access this part of Jeffries Point: Sumner & Bremen St and Sumner & Orleans St. While Bremen and Orleans streets have stop signs, Sumner is a much busier road and cars tend to drive quickly (and there is a slight hill sometimes making it hard to see in combination with parked vehicles), making crossing as a person or vehicle dangerous, even with the crosswalk there. Stop signs should be added to Sumner St at both of these intersections.

I am writing this request on behalf of HUB Sports Boston. We have the permit at Ross Playground for this Saturday, November 7th, which our permit includes both softball fields at the park (Reddy Ave. & Westminster - Permit #R45832). We would like to have both infields lined & dragged before our event takes the field this Saturday morning. We have upwards of 12 adult teams traveling a great distance for this event, so if your team could do their best to make both fields at Ross Playground look ready to go and playable for our softball tournament, that would be awesome.