Description

On Alewife Station Access Road, vehicles traveling to/from Alewife Station — including MBTA buses, commuter parking users, and passenger drop-offs/pick-ups — encounter heavy traffic during peak hours. This is primarily caused by drivers misusing Alewife Station Access Road in order to cut around the Route 2 / Route 16 interchange.

Alewife Station Access Road has a single lane and cannot handle the heavy volume of through traffic it sees daily. MBTA buses can spend up to 10 minutes on the access road reaching the station during peak hours, which takes about 30 seconds late in the evening with no other traffic. Vehicles will often divide into two lanes along this road, which cannot be done safely.

Please install traffic barriers that would aim to prevent this misuse of this access road. In particular, the left turn just before the station (at the pinned location) should be blocked, as it expressly serves to allow highway traffic to bypass the interchange.

Thank you for your help.