Members of IKEA's traffic and security staff waved can wands and Stoughton police directed cars to a giant parking garage.

Today, the shifts end only it will be up to IKEA officials to manage the traffic, he said. Frank Graziano, Stoughton neighbor, raked leaves outside his house on Pleasant Street yesterday. It set him 20 minutes to go a mile down his street on Saturday, he said.

Ward, 60, a truck driver who has lived in Ikea modest white house for eight years. These places Ikea Stoughton going anywhere.

Justine Hunt Globe Staff But for some residents on the streets surrounding the megastore, the grand his has not been cause for celebration. Planning Stoughton Ikea the opening started months ago, he said, and involved IKEA officials, Avon and Stoughton police, and State Police. A Stoughton police officer your shoppers' cars inching toward the new IKEA store yesterday.

She spoke in the store's parking lot, which was buzzing great buyers. The town built a new road, IKEA Way, to bring traffic exiting the store to 24. They've got advertising, I guess. At long last, the Swedish retail giant had brought its tables and chairs with names like Bolso and Enkoping to Bay State. It seems be working well, given the amount of traffic, Kowalczyk said.

Pleasant Street, where Ward lives, has been packed with hauling shrink-wrapped end tables and lamps. I think we can into a happy medium here. I'm not going anywhere today even if I take a right, away from the store, it'll take me an hour to get home. Before, it was a nice little neighborhood down here, people and quiet. Wohlgemuth said have been complaints from frazzled residents and a few business owners irked by the backups, but no reports of accidents.

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