JJ

  •
    33-39 Massachusetts 114 Peabody, Massachusetts - Peabody
    Why is there a left turn only lane on Andover Street heading northwestbound, that turns onto Buttonwood Lane? The road is two lanes in this direction for a long distance behind this intersection, and for a very long distance in front of this intersection, and Buttonwood Lane is a very minor road... it makes no sense to create a bottleneck on a major road such as Andover St caused by forcing people to merge from 2 lanes into 1 lane, then back into 2 lanes after they cross this minor intersection. The left lane should have the option of going straight or turning left. This is probably why this intersection is on MassDOT's top 200 intersection cluster list (http://gis.massdot.state.ma.us/maptemplate/topcrashlocations)
  • 13 Dexter Street Medford, Massachusetts - Somerville

    re-posting this 10/7/2015 issue because City of Medford said they are closing all old issues as they join See-Click-Fix (I have no idea why they it necessary to close old posts): The green light on Dexter Street is 5 seconds long, which is not long enough for bicyclists to get through this large intersection. The short green light combined with extremely long red light plus having to compete with oncoming traffic from the CVS parking lot means Dexter Street gets backed up past Bow Street during rush hour, as only a couple of cars can get through the intersection per light cycle. It also sets up a game of chicken between Dexter St and the CVS parking lot traffic, with people not yielding to oncoming traffic when making left turns... very dangerous. Needs either "left turns yield to oncoming traffic" signs or change so Dexter and CVS parking don't compete for the same green light, plus a longer green light.

    Past comments from other users included:
    2 "No Turn on Red" signs on Broadway (one for each direction) would be a good idea, too. I've seen cars turning from Broadway onto Medford by going across Dexter.

    Additionally, the signal detection from Dexter Street is not calibrated for bikes. So if no car is there, the signal will skip Dexter and bikes cannot legally cross the intersection.

  • 255 Mystic Avenue Medford, Massachusetts - Medford
    The sign along the side of the road indicates that the center lane can only go straight onto Harvard St. but the arrows painted on the road indicate that the center lane may either go straight or turn left. Conflicting signage like this causes confusion and may lead to accidents as drivers in the left lane taking a left turn onto Mystic Ave aren't expecting drivers from the center lane to also be turning left.
  • 710 North Harvard Street Boston, Massachusetts - Allston-Brighton
    As of 12/3/15, now that 2 lanes are available again to go from the Harvard Business School over Storrow/Soldiers Field and onto the Anderson Memorial Bridge, the multiple signs along the road that say "Right lane must turn right" are conflicting with the arrows painted on the road that indicate that the right lane may either turn right OR go straight. Someone seeing the signs will get into the left lane to go straight over the bridge, then get stuck behind left-turning cars while the right lane passes them and goes straight over the bridge. Conflicting signs increase the chance of an accident. The signs along the right side of the road that say "Right lane must turn right" should be covered up or removed (it is better for the left lane to be for left turns and the right lane to have the option to go straight).
  • Powder House Square Somerville, Massachusetts - Somerville
    Powderhouse Square rotary is on my list of top 3 most dangerous intersections in the region. People are constantly inventing their own lanes and failing to yield to traffic in the rotary. I frequently think I'm in the far right "lane", and then someone invents a lane even further to the right and cuts me off, and if I move further right then someone on the left will cut me off exiting. Others enter the rotary failing to yield to traffic already in the rotary by attempting to create their own lane. This intersection would benefit tremendously if it were painted similar to a rotary in Revere that clearly identifies where people can go and who has the right of way, as shown on the attached jpg image. It could potentially also benefit from traffic lights that at peak traffic hours act more like a signaled intersection than a rotary, allowing only 2 opposing roads to enter the rotary, with flashing yellow lights, at a time while the other 4 roads have red lights. At non-peak hours it could revert to all flashing yellow lights so it acted like a traditional rotary.
  • 1485-1491 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA - Mid-Cambridge
    Is there a good reason that at 1485-1491 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, the left lane splits into 3 lanes, including 1 that takes the right fork onto Cambridge St, and the right lane only takes 1 lane of the right fork, instead of the right lane taking both lanes off the right fork and the left lane taking both lanes off the left fork?
  • Highway 38 Somerville, Massachusetts - Somerville
    Drivers create their own lanes here, and people in the left "lanes" take the right fork, while people in the right "lanes" take the left fork, and people in the middle "lane" will do either, creating a criss-crossing death-trap. Why have there not been lines painted here for the last decade?
  • 2-10 Lynnway Lynn, Massachusetts - Lynn
    When traveling east on the Lynnway and entring the Nahant traffic circle, there are 2 yield sign immediately followed by 3 traffic lights that are set permanently to green turn arrows, giving drivers the impression that they have the right of way entering the traffic circle, which is never, ever the case for a traffic circle. Traffic already in the traffic circle ALWAYS has the right of way. These lights should be flashing yellow, not green turn arrows, and anyone entering the traffic circle should be yielding to traffic already in the circle. This is a liability issue and accident waiting to happen.
  • 2-16 Dexter Street Medford, Massachusetts - Medford
    The green light on Dexter Street is 5 seconds long, which is not long enough for bicyclists to get through this large intersection. The short green light combined with extremely long red light plus having to compete with oncoming traffic from the CVS parking lot means Dexter Street gets backed up past Bow Street during rush hour, as only a couple of cars can get through the intersection per light cycle. It also sets up a game of chicken between Dexter St and the CVS parking lot traffic, with people not yielding to oncoming traffic when making left turns... very dangerous. Needs either "left turns yield to oncoming traffic" signs or change so Dexter and CVS parking don't compete for the same green light, plus a longer green light.
  • 1-99 New Liberty Street Salem, Massachusetts - City of Salem
    the entrance to the New Liberty St garage is a right-of-way disaster. Step 1 is painting a yellow centerline on New Liberty St so those exiting the garage don't treat the oncoming traffic lane as their own left turn lane. Next is getting rid of the "driveway". See attached pdf file with problems on page 1 (submitted here) and solution on page 2 (submitted in a different report). Note green crosswalk on page 2 that is also needed here.
  • 1-99 New Liberty Street Salem, Massachusetts - City of Salem
    the entrance to the New Liberty St garage is a right-of-way disaster. Step 1 is painting a yellow centerline on New Liberty St so those exiting the garage don't treat the oncoming traffic lane as their own left turn lane. Next is getting rid of the "driveway". See attached pdf file with problems on page 1 and solution on page 2. Note green crosswalk on page 2 that is also needed here.
  • 51 Grove Street Salem, Massachusetts - City of Salem
    2015 renovations to this intersection have made a bad intersection worse... used to be a 4 way stop with the stop signs too far apart, but renovations have made it confusing. I can't tell if it is still a 4 way stop with stop signs EVEN FURTHER apart, or if it is now 2 sets of 2-way stops that are way too close to one another. If I'm trying to go "straight" from Mason St onto Harmony Grove Rd, who do I yield to and who yields to me??? All you needed to do to make this intersection work was tighten the intersection, pulling all the stop signs closer together. 2015 renovations made things WAY worse.
  • 22-46 Saint Peter Street Salem, Massachusetts - City of Salem
    The sensors that detect traffic waiting on St Peter's St are WAY too far forward. People stop behind the stop line and don't realize they won't trip the sensors there and everyone waiting on St Peter's Street will wait 5, 10, 15 minutes at a red light until someone gets out of their car and walks up to them and tells them to pull forward ONTO the stop line where the sensors are. At least put some signs up telling people to pull forward onto the line until you can get the sensors re-located into proper position behind the stop line.