Springfield City Councilor Victor Davila told us he’s lived in that neighborhood all his life and he described the project as a necessary evil that will come with headaches, but it will be well worth the wait. “It’s just gradually getting worse. We have anywhere between 16,000 cars that come down Sumner Avenue each way and it’s just gradually getting worse. People are using it as a speedway and this is not a highway. This is a residential neighborhood. This is a historic district here and this is our home, so the techniques being used the widening of the street, it’s going to be a much better and safer for everyone,” he explained.