The city temporarily closed Pearl Road where it meets Rock Quarry and Barwell roads so contractors could bring sanity and logic to an off-kilter intersection. But some residents say the closure has resulted in dangerous chaos in the meantime.
Pearl was closed at Rock Quarry earlier this week as contractors begin the work of moving it about 150 feet to line up with Barwell Road. Pearl Road is expected to reopen by Christmas, when what had been two adjoining intersections will become one.
But the closure means the loss, however temporary, of the only traffic light that people living in hundreds of homes off Pearl Road used to get in and out of their neighborhood. Detour signs send residents to the other end of Pearl Road, near the Shoppes at Battle Bridge shopping center, but many are using the only other route in and out, a narrow residential street called Laurel Glen Drive…