A trek by state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, and local leaders over the bridge to Connecticut last Friday may make Bay State highways safer from wrong-way drivers.
Tarr’s visit to the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Highway Operations Center in Newington to see a potential technological solution to the problem comes after a driver is accused of heading north on Route 128 southbound on the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge and colliding with a car carrying four young adult Gloucester residents.
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