A number of kids in Billerica's Parker Street neighborhood gathered at the gate that kept their street closed to through-traffic for 24 years before it was taken down last month. The gate was first installed in 2000 in response to multiple children being struck by cars cutting through the street. (Courtesy Russell Phippen)
![Billerica resident Chuck Guenther stands on a speed bump next...]()
Billerica resident Chuck Guenther stands on a speed bump next to his Parker Street home Oct. 9, 2024, where there used to stand a gate that kept the street closed to through-traffic. Unlike many of his neighbors, Guenther wanted the gate gone, in part because it made it difficult to pull out of his driveway. (Peter Currier/Lowell Sun)
A number of kids in Billerica's Parker Street neighborhood gathered at the gate that kept their street closed to through-traffic for 24 years before it was taken down last month. The gate was first installed in 2000 in response to multiple children being struck by cars cutting through the street. (Courtesy Russell Phippen)
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BILLERICA — Residents in the Parker Street neighborhood had been lobbying to keep the street closed to through-traffic via a closed gate that had stood for more than two decades. But after the town’s legal counsel found the gate to have been put there illegally, it was removed last month, and those residents are not happy.
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