Yes! I choke every time I walk down Mount Auburn Street past these buses that are sitting idling in front of signs saying no idling allowed. Can we call police non emergency? Can you patrol this area? Harvard police are often present but do not enforce the idling ban.

Where is enforcement of the 5 or is it 3 minute idling rule, both MA and US?

Yes, please do sth about it! The area is like a bus terminal. The noise of the buses, which starts early in the morning until late at night, is super annoying. It is not legal. There are traffic signs, but no one seems to care about it.

Yes please enforce no idling rules. Buses at my auburn street are the worst but any number of trucks and Uber drivers do it too.

What are the City of Cambridge telephone numbers to call for enforcement of the No idling rule?

For issues with vehicles idling, or other issues requiring an immediate responses, please call the Cambridge Police Non-Emergency Line at 617-349-3300.

Since idling by buses on Mount Auburn Street in Harvard Square has been an ongoing one, please leave the issue open until there is a stated plan with an identified person responsible for assigning regular enforcement till idling ceases. Thank you.

The solution would be to intervene when the police see it instead of calling the police. Because it's clearly not legal. It would be appropriate to inform the police.

Make it a true idle-free zone.

Hire a few dedicated monitors for this area, viz a viz the Arts Council Noise monitors. Vehicles that are citied idling will be required to move immediately, fined and their company will be banned from the area for 10/15 days etc. How difficult is this really to deal with? They want to bring their customers to see Harvard Square, great. But everyone else using the square shouldn't have to deal with the pollution and the busses in the bike lanes, etc.

This area is an issue for human health and safety: there are two other SeeClickFix issues from just the last 2 weeks on this one block stretch of Mt Auburn. The idling, blocking the bike lane, the traffic pattern. It feels dangerous as a driver, a cyclist, and a pedestrian! I thought this corridor was just studied. This area is an issue and needs someone to patrol it. If police believe it isn’t their problem to address then figure out who should. It isn’t a citizens job to report every violation every time. You have a group of citizens who are telling you this Mount Auburn bus area is a problem every day! Thank you.

This problem stil not resolved. What should we do?

We could contact the Conservation Law Foundation. They have sued the Encore casino for allowing shuttle buses to idle for hours and not enforcing the state law.

The Police Department has taken the following measures in response to Item #19-120 that was shared at tonight's City Council meeting regarding idling vehicles.

• The leadership of the Patrol Division has reminded all uniformed personnel about the laws regulating idling and the importance of enforcement.

• Working with the Department’s Traffic Analyst, we are in the process of developing a list of additional locations that have a large volume of idling commercial and TNC
vehicles. Including, but not limited to, the following locations:

o Massachusetts Avenue in Central, Harvard and Porter Square
o Cambridge Street from First Street to Inman Square
o Kendall Square
o Huron Avenue
o Concord Avenue

• This information will be shared with the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department for additional “No-Idling” signage consideration in the most concentrated areas.

• Directed Enforcement assignments are being incorporated into the department's "Park and Walk" program and officers will be dispatched at various times between other calls for service.

• The department will utilize officers conducting enforcement under Highway Safety grants to incorporate idling enforcement into their patrols.

Our outreach efforts will include encouraging businesses to post “No-Idling” signs in their parking lots, etc.

The full response is available at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=2184&Inline=True.

Can an officer order a truck or bus in violation of idling or parking on a sidewalk to move on? (i.e. stop delivering or picking up, immediately, and move on?)

This is still going on.

Can we see reports listing actual enforcement by the numbers and locations?

@Aurthurstrang - an Officer does have the authority to require a vehicle to move along if there is an observed violation. In terms of reports, police citations are one of the several data sets published on the City's Open Data portal - https://data.cambridgema.gov/browse?category=Public+Safety.

8631450 How do I find this SCF? I really did look for a way when another SCF was closed referencing this number.