Auditors checking Worcester school zones this summer found 47 streets at 29 schools without the 20 mph signs the city’s school zone ordinance requires, City Auditor Robert V. Stearns told the City Council in a report dated Oct. 13.
The report answers a council order that came out of a May 11 Committee on Education meeting and won full council approval June 2. The order asked Stearns to review drop-off and pick-up areas, the streets students use to reach school, crosswalks, flashing crosswalk signs, 20 mph signs and bus stops located away from crosswalks.
Auditing staff visited 38 schools and 93 of the city’s 108 designated school zones in June and July. Along with the 47 streets that had no signs, they counted eight more where branches partly blocked the signs or where signs faced only one direction…