Description
Every day, evening, and most importantly, night (dusk-1AM)during these beautiful times of the year it is impossible for residents on Beacon Street and surrounding areas to leave windows open without having the intrusive bus commute noises to deal with. Specifically, at the Beacon Street stop the buses are constantly revving their engines from the Beacon Street off-ramp to rush to a complete stop at Beacon Street stop. Then they again will almost always intensely rev the engine to rush to yet another complete stop at the stop sign at the corner of Beacon and Broadway, which is no longer than 30-40 YARDS AWAY! I have read this complaint before and the response points to writing down the bus #'s that excessively speed/stop noisily, but that will not solve the core issue here.
I would suggest possibly moving the bus stop to a somewhat non-residential type of location right around the corner possibly by the Chelsea Trial Courthouse and 7-Eleven. At least then the stop and go type of noise would be occuring primarily in more of a commercial setting with the same functionality and accessibility that is currently available.
Please take the time to come up with a well-thought out response and not something unresolving and irrelevant to the situation. Thank you in advance!
11 Commentaires
Richie C (Utilisateur inscrit)
Kim (Invité)
Carol Brown (Utilisateur inscrit)
Park Street Resident (Invité)
Kim (Invité)
Although I appreciate your comments, since you are not a Beacon St resident I don't feel you truly understand the level of noise and polution experienced from the bus stop. The stop you speak of is not in a residential area. As to your point about trucks, they are actually not permitted to use Beacon Street during the night/early morning so that is a non-factor. It is reasonable to relocate the stop towards the stop you are referencing for ease of accessibility and improvement of living conditions for Beacon St and surrounding residents. If you lived where I lived I'm sure you would feel the same way.
Park Street Resident (Invité)
Beacon street (Invité)
First of all, thank you for everyone to weigh in on this matter. The more that constructive thoughts are presented into a situation the better the chances are that we can come up with a great resolution.
Park street....I think the point that Kim was trying to make is that beacon street is not at all a commercial street whereas you live on a very often traveled commercial/residential street. In my opinion, there seems like there is no need to further congest a residential street such as beacon street when an easier solution would be to just move a bus stop literally one block over to an already heavily/noisy traveled route. In addition, given the frequency of the popular 111 bus, it only seems logical to move the stop in order to prevent a simple noise/pollution disturbance.
I guess the overall bottom line is that if noise disturbance can be prevented by relocating the beacon street stop to a pre-existing higher traffic area I don't see why that wouldn't be a valid and wise decision.
Clos Richie C (Utilisateur inscrit)
Beacon Street resident (Invité)
Richie C (Utilisateur inscrit)
Beacon Street resident (Invité)
Good to know, thank you! I was wondering though; what if the bus stop was moved to the corner of Chestnut and Williams Street so as to avoid having to make that turn? It could then proceed straight down Chestnut street to continue the bus route I believe.
But even if it had to travel down Beacon Street I think that moving the stop would at least accomplish having the bus only making one stop on Beacon instead of two (once at the bus stop and once at the stop sign @ corner of Beacon and Broadway).
Let me know what you think and thanks again for everything.