Description
Webster Avenue is a heavily trafficked road and has always been very frightening to bike down -- with two-way traffic including the 85 and CT2 bus lines, parallel parking on both sides, and heavy industrial use of the area, you often get cars, buses, bike, and trucks stacking up behind each other because there isn't enough room for everything to get through in both directions at the same time. There shouldn't be parallel parking on both sides of this street, or the street should be one way. Both Cambridge and Somerville should take a look at it.
3 Comments
New Haven Safe Streets (Guest)
Traffic calming is definitely needed on this street.
boblothrope (Guest)
Making this street wider, or one way, or banning parking on one side, would be the opposite of traffic calming. Cars would drive faster, and it would be scarier for pedestrians to cross.
It's the same width as most two-way streets in Cambridge and Somerville.
I'd prefer it if they fixed the pavement quality, signage (including missing one-way, do-not-enter, and street name signs), and the smashed up, unreflectorized guard rails in this area.
skrap
I agree that this street is dangerous. One of my co-workers was recently biking on this stretch of road and got crowded into the curb by a car. He crashed his bike, but thankfully he was not permanent hurt.