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Dear Cambridge Traffic Parking and Transportation Staff,
I wanted to alert you to the traffic situation that has been created by the new "No Turn On Red" sign at the intersection of Rindge Ave and Alewife Brook Parkway. Since that sign has been installed, during high traffic-volume times, traffic is now backing up from Alewife Brook Parkway all the way back to Mass Ave. That's nearly a mile of cars sitting in traffic barely moving.
This is also causing traffic to back up onto the side streets that feed onto Rindge Ave.
This adversely effects commuters, school buses, pedestrians, children on their way to school, crossing guards, curbside collection workers, and people with air quality issues.
I left my house at 7:30 this morning, and traffic was already backed up nearly to Mass Ave because of that new sign.
I'm hopeful you can remove the sign and find another pedestrian safety solution at that intersection that doesn't back up traffic so badly.
Thanks very much for considering this.
Sincerely,
Freedom Baird
20 Reed Street
Cambridge, MA
c: 617-529-6744
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18 Commentaires
Traffic - BMcK (Streets) (Membre officiel vérifié)
Chriswit (Utilisateur inscrit)
FBaird (Utilisateur inscrit)
Neil Hanlon (Utilisateur inscrit)
In my "not-a-traffic-engineer" opinion, I believe a large part of the problem is that drivers coming over the bridge continue through on yellow lights and don't leave any room for drivers turning to get on ABP and continue forward. With the previous ability to turn right on red, these drivers could turn once the light on the parkway turned green and the drivers at the bridge still had a red light... but this is no longer possible (read: legal). This, combined with a number of other factors (like the traffic pattern changing with absolutely zero communication, etc) is causing the extreme backups we're seeing.
I live off of Cedar and have lines of cars when trying to turn out of my driveway every morning now... which I've never had. It takes 15-20 minutes longer to get out to Rt. 2 in the morning now. Hell, it took my partner 15 minutes to get from Cedar to Sherman street the other day which is just obnoxious.
Neil Hanlon (Utilisateur inscrit)
FBaird (Utilisateur inscrit)
FBaird (Utilisateur inscrit)
Traffic - PB (Engineering) (Utilisateur inscrit)
Reconnu Traffic - PB (Engineering) (Utilisateur inscrit)
Rico (Utilisateur inscrit)
Traffic - DB (Signals) (Utilisateur inscrit)
City Hall – DR (Membre officiel vérifié)
City Hall – DR (Membre officiel vérifié)
Traffic - KC (Permits) (Membre officiel vérifié)
Rico (Utilisateur inscrit)
Dear Traffic KC (Admin) - be advised that I received this mail this morning from DCR:
"Good Afternoon Mr. ___!
Thank you for contacting the Department of Conservation and Recreation regarding the “No Turn on Red” sign. This sign was requested by the City of Cambridge’s traffic department. I would suggest reaching out to them to find out their reasoning, and to see if you can get a copy of their study.
Please let me know if I can assist with anything else.
Best Regards,
Ashley N. Rosone
DCR Community Relations Manager
617-626-1412
Ashley.Rosone@mass.gov"
It seems they put the sign up AT YOUR REQUEST. This is a huge problem. Kindly take down that sign and come up with a better solution. Numerous ones have been proposed here and neighborhood.com.
Traffic - KC (Permits) (Membre officiel vérifié)
FBaird (Utilisateur inscrit)
Clos Traffic - PB (Engineering) (Utilisateur inscrit)
The Department of Conservation and Recreation has removed the NO TURN ON RED sign.
Thank you for your report.