I understand your concern about the crosswalk as I have observed (on both foot and by car) that drivers regularly ignore it. It would be nice to have some sort of traffic signal that pedestrians could utilize to stop traffic for short intervals to cross. However, at least from a twice daily anecdotal perspective, the only time that cars come close to backing up into the Grove/College intersection is when the city bus fails to pull over to the curb and blocks the entire lane.

Given the capaciousness of the intersection generally, and my personal experience, I would not be overly concerned about the risk of traffic backing into the intersection. A greater concern in my opinion is that the traffic going southbound on Prospect backs up into the intersection at TRUMBULL and Prospect, thus truly blocking a small and vital intersection. When traffic back-ups extend over a block, you know there is a serious traffic problem!

Another possible remedy, although one that should be seriously be considered if the Temple Street bridge is going to be out for more than a year, would be to make the stretch of Grove between Prospect and Temple two-way, so that the traffic could make use of Temple south of Grove.

the way to fix this intersection is to put a left green arrow for northbound drivers on college (turning into prospect). construction or not, this is needed for the volume and to protect peds. i am sick of getting stuck in that intersection waiting for the people driving north on grove to nail me.

No longer a problem as Temple St bridge has reopened.