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Ever since Garden Street became one way, Raymond has been inundated with cars, trucks, school buses, and delivery vehicles. Raymond isn’t wide enough to accommodate all this extra traffic, along with heavy pedestrian use and cyclists. Someone is going to get seriously hurt or worse unless something is done about this. Cars need to be directed away from Raymond into larger streets. At a minimum, we need to have no turns onto Raymond from 7-9am and 5-7pm.
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City of Cambridge (Verified Official)
GTS (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
City Hall - FG (Verified Official)
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Acknowledged Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
hk (Registered User)
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Jean-Francois (Registered User)
MarcCambridge (Registered User)
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Jean-Francois (Registered User)
Maurisse Gray (Registered User)
Concerned NC Neighbor (Registered User)
Jean-Francois (Registered User)
Concerned NC Neighbor (Registered User)
There are also some situations (red lights, stop signs, crosswalks) which simply cannot be designed in a way that does not require active compliance from the operators who currently willfully ignore the law.
The best part of enforcement is that we don't actually have to hire any additional officers. We simply need to have our existing force actually do their job. How big is the existing dedicated Traffic Enforcement team? 15 fulltime officers? That's 120 man-hours available every single day, and currently those 120 hours produce a laughable and pathetic 3 citations.
Anonymous (Registered User)
https://seeclickfix.com/issues/12524562
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Closed Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Concerned NC Neighbor (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
Neighborhood Nine (Registered User)
Linnaean St. voices are needed in this conversation. It’s tended to be believed comments as such may not be welcome by side street residents- but as modifications go forward Linnaean residents need be taken into consideration. Thank you.
Anonymous (Registered User)
Concerned NC Neighbor (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Concerned NC Neighbor (Registered User)
There are simple solutions for that (for example, add an additional light with a crosswalk), but those are all out of scope because this disaster was a "quick build" project. These "quick build" projects don't require traffic studies, community feedback, an efficacy study, or even simply a site survey. The last one is why Garden St is now too narrow for the buses on their existing route to turn left from Sheppard without encroaching on the inbound bike lane.
While simple, a light with a crosswalk would still require a modicum of actual work to do correctly and the Garden St SNAFU has shown us that actual work is the very last thing anybody working for the city wants to do.
Mary (Registered User)
Mary (Registered User)
I'm sorry you didn't get to provide your feedback, but it was solicited. Maybe it would be better at this point to write to one or several city councilors (cc: the city clerk)--their email addresses are available on the City of Cambridge website, as are notices of all council meetings and community meetings, etc. It's a gold mine.
Concerned NC Neighbor (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)