This article was originally produced by The Eagle Tribune . NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative .

Executive Councilor Janet Stevens has joined the fight, alongside the Town of Salem, urging the state to take immediate action to make a dangerous intersection in town safer.

In response to a series of accidents last week, one involving a motorcyclist who was seriously injured, Stevens joined forces with local politician Joe Sweeney to put pressure on the state to resolve the issue.

Stevens and Sweeney met with state Department of Transportation Commissioner William Cass and Salem officials Tuesday to discuss a recent engineering study and short-term and immediate improvements to the intersection, identified in a 2017 Road Safety Aud

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