Description
Empty school buses have been steadily increasing their use of Decatur St, entering from Brookline. That can only lead to a left turn onto Pearl from Decatur.
1. The turn onto Decatur from Brookline, and onto Pearl from Decatur is too narrow for these vehicles to navigate. They often block traffic while they wait for other vehicles - already there - to move. And they often "play chicken" forcing other vehicles - which were already over 1/2-way down Decatur - to back up the length of Decatur St and let the bus go by.
2. It's not clear what school is being serviced by these buses. From Pearl, they could get to the Morse School on Granite St - but if so, why were they headed down Brookline in the first place. They could also have been heading to the Amigos School on Upton - but again why are they coming down Brookline when they should be taking Pearl over to Magazine or Pleasant?
This happens in the morning during rush hour as well as during mid-afternoon. Bus #115 is a regular, but I'll post the numbers of others as I see them.
5 Commentaires
City of Cambridge (Membre officiel vérifié)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Utilisateur inscrit)
Even better: make Decatur St off-limits to semis and large trucks as well as school buses. The only exception would be moving and delivery vehicles who're actually destined to addresses on Decatur.
Other than that, large trucks and empty school buses have no business on Decatur. And unless the school buses are picking up or dropping off kids on Decatur nearby, why limit this to empty school buses - they're clearly taking another route when they have kids on board.
City Hall – DR (Membre officiel vérifié)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Utilisateur inscrit)
I just saw this as well: bus #115, empty, heading down Brookline St, turned right on Decatur. The only outcome from there would be Pearl.
So they had to be coming from either Erie (from Albany) or from Brookline above Putnam. It still makes no sense why they're driving through this neighborhood.
Can the City ask these drivers not to bring large, *empty* school buses down these small streets?
Clos An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Utilisateur inscrit)