BERLIN — It will be a two-way traffic pattern along both Main Street and Pleasant Street that engineers for the downtown infrastructure project will design as councilors voted 6-1 to recommend this plan as a step toward economic revitalization.
Councilors Mia Qualls, Peter Higbee, Richard Plourde, Peter Morency, Steven Korzen and Robin Lavertu voted for the two-way traffic pattern along both streets, while Councilor Robert Theberge voted no.
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