City of Medford PIU

Recent road work and patching resulted in the disappearance of the solid painted line separating lanes of traffic moving in different directions. At this intersection, traffic can pull onto Fountain from Webster (the left of this photo), and off of Fountain onto Webster (on the right). It wasn’t great even with a line, but without it, just in the week or so it has been missing, I have almost been in several head on collisions as I try to pull onto Fountain. We live in the house right on this corner.

Please permanently install and repaint the crosswalk to cross Salem St. at Everett St. The current situation of allowing it to fade is incredibly unsafe. Pedestrians still see it and believe it is a crosswalk, motorists who are traveling at high speeds do not see it until it's too late. The distance between the nearest two crosswalks on either side (the one at Park St. and the one at Fulton) is too long. Additionally the sidewalk on Salem St. adjacent to the gas station at Salem and Park is in such terrible condition that it is nearly impossible for wheelchair users or people with heavy shopping carts to traverse this sidewalk, meaning that even if Park St. is the closer crosswalk for the direction someone is going, if they can't get over that disastrous sidewalk by the gas station, they need to go in the opposite direction all the way to Fulton to cross (in a crosswalk that is still quite dangerous because despite the painted lines, drivers till park their cars right up to or even in the crosswalk) to then have to go back to Park to the direction they wanted to go. It shouldn't be this hard to get across the street!