Totally agree with this comment. There are currently 4 apt buildings on the street with several more being built. The construction trucks already block the road during the morning commute and the road is basically 1 lane in the winter with the plows. There needs to be a second road built to allow cars to enter and exit the street. Once the new science lab opens, even more people will come to the road. Please consider investing in making a second road to exit the street.

Welcome to Alewife! Funny story - about 2-3 years ago to get permitting to build the new apartment complexes (only 3 existed at that time) there was a town hall meeting. The city determined that adding ~3000 new residents to the street WOULD NOT AFFECT traffic in any meaningful way. HAHA. They even made ridiculous graphs to "prove" their point, basically saying that residents reverse commute and dont drive at the same time as people who work/commute to that area. Dont live there if you plan on driving much (especially between 5-7PM). They are also adding more apartments in the close by vicinity, which will only further backup Alewife Brook Parkway even more. Its a much better area for subway commuters.

-Former resident of CPD

City Hall – DR assigned this issue to Traffic - KC (Permits)

Thank you for contacting the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department. We appreciate your comments about access to this neighborhood and are working towards increasing the mobility options in this area. While these buildings are already situated next to a major rapid transit and bus station, we are also building new pathways for walking and biking and adding more bike share stations to encourage non-vehicular travel, which reduces reliance on the single-occupancy vehicles that currently create this traffic scenario. Future plans include a pedestrian and bicycle bridge across the railroad tracks as well as possible changes to traffic patterns. As this platform is intended for maintenance items, not overarching feedback, we are going to have to close this case, but please keep an eye out for any upcoming community meetings that may be relevant to the planning of this neighborhood.

Please keep this open for CRM Manager to put in place process to address improving citizen's requests. Will add more details later but wanted to reopen before it gets archived

I am posting this comment to make sure this issue remains open as a bookmark for CRM Manager's action.
Thank you

Thank you, anonymous SeeClickFix user, for reporting this issue which encapsulates in a nutshell multitude of problems Cambridge has in addressing citizen's concerns/issues.
1) There is no process in place to bring about issues that require long term solution or interdepartmental coordinated solution. SeeClickFix is the only available centralized platform to report issues but as Traffic - SM (Engineering) stated, this platform is intended for maintenance items, not overarching feedback. Hopefully the newly created CRM Manager can implement a new customer relationship management solution that can address the long term issues.
2) There is on-going Envision Cambridge to formulate Master Plan yet developments are going up all over the place without clear vision or coordinated effort to mitigate problems arising from too rapid development.
3) Time after time, each developer presents traffic studies that many times contradicts what neighboring residents experience every day. I have heard in many Planning Board hearings that the traffic situation is bad in that neighborhood but the new development will not make it any worse, not taking into account of impact of all the other development going on in that neighborhood.
4) Traffic mitigation plans should not just address pedestrian/bike traffic. They must be done in conjunction with automobile traffic improvement measures. On a more wider scale, City has to work with MBTA to improve bus and T services.
For these and many other related reasons, please keep this open

We are working to address issues reported to the City that require long-term planning and coordination between departments as this system is best suited to deal with issues that can be assigned to staff and fixed in a timely manner. In the interim, we reached out to Envision Cambridge and they responded with the following: Transportation issues were a major discussion for Envision Cambridge and we identified short-, medium-, and long-term transportation infrastructure and policy actions to encourage sustainable modes of transportation and reduce traffic congestion. A presentation on the transportation issues and proposed actions is available here: http://envision.cambridgema.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-12-Alewife-Working-Group_final-1.pdf

Thank you for reaching out to Envision Cambridge.