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Ninety-six per cent of Boston's intersections will need signs, Robert Drummond, an official in the Boston Traffic Department, estimated. An employee at the Cambridge Traffic Department said Cambridge would need signs for over 90 per cent of its intersections.
Drummond said right turns will not be legal on a red light where there is an exclusive pedestrian cross-walk, or where large numbers of pedestrians are normally present.
Every town will take an inventory of its intersections to decide which ones are dangerous for right-hand turns during red lights, Sue Myers, Massachusetts assistant secretary of transportation, said yesterday. At those intersections, towns will not post signs, she said.
The state will grant each town the necessary amount of money to implement the law, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Public Works said. The Federal Highway Administration will reimburse the state for much of the money, he said.
"The law will make it safer for the pedestrian," Myers said. "People from out of state don't know that a turn is illegal here, and surprise Boston pedestrians when they turn right on a red light," she said.