Very very slow leaving Cambridgepark Drive last night. It took 35 minutes to go from 150 Cambridgepark Drive to the traffic light at Alewife. This is at 4:20pm. Many many many light cycles without a single car able to get through the intersection. I called the Police requesting a traffic cop. Their response was to be patient and wait. I don't think that is a solution. Did I say Ahhhhhhhh yet?

Yes, traffic was backed up into the garage behind 150 Cambridge Park Drive until **8PM**!! Absolutely ridiculous.

This picture though shows a poland springs delivery truck blocking a lane of traffic. This happens every day, delivery trucks parking in the new bike line blocking traffic.

Agreed that last night was horrible and absolutely ridiculous. It took me an hour to drive from 200 to 100 Cambridgepark drive to pick up my kids from the daycare. I almost missed the pickup time of 6pm the traffic was so bad! I find it completely unacceptable for the city (in which I also pay taxes!!) to completely ignore the traffic issues in the surrounding area while continuing to allow new apartment and office buildings.

Lets be honest -- delivery trucks deliver stuff to the office buildings here every day, all day. Since the city (for some unknown reason) decided to reduce the effective width of CambridgePark drive to two narrow car lanes, any delivery vehicle *has* to block traffic in order to make a delivery. Ticketing delivery vehicles isn't going to solve the problem (although it could raise revenue for the city/police department).

Congestion on Tuesday night was extraordinary throughout the Boston region due to the heavy rain and localized flooding on several key state roadways.

With regards to the trucks in the bike lane, we are continuing to enforce the regulations for parking in the bike lane on Cambridgepark Drive. The layout of the road includes designated loading zones on the north side in several locations for delivery trucks. Those that choose to disregard these and park in the bike lane will be ticketed.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Traffic - PB (Engineering) said: "The layout of the road includes designated loading zones on the north side in several locations for delivery trucks. "

I just walked the road today and also checked the official list of loading zones in Cambridge (yeah, I was surprised that this exists as well!).

There are two loading zones. One fairly close to Steel Place on the north side. This is marked as a loading zone. The other is (I think) the turn around at the end of CPD. This is unmarked (and I created another ticket to get that fixed).

There are no other loading zones that I could find today. Two zones (one unmarked) is not "several". If there were more areas for trucks to load and unload without blocking the road, that would be great.

Note that the current congestion caused by trucks is *entirely* the fault of the City of Cambridge who added two bike lanes and put parking spaces in the middle of a travel lane and did not add any new loading zones for the trucks delivering to businesses.

The remainder of the loading zones will be posted this week. In the interim, it is still illegal for trucks to stop in the bike lane, which is posted NO STOPPING. It is the drivers responsibility to find a safe and legal on-street spot or an off-street location (of which there are plenty in this area) to unload their vehicle. We will continue to direct parking control officers to ticket in this area.

Thank you for your report.