The new pavement markings / parking designations on CPD are a disaster and poorly designed for the following reasons:
1) The parking on the North side of the street is literally in the middle of the road. I have not seen this setup anywhere else, ever. That doesn't seem safe.
2) ~14ft of space was set aside to accommodate 2 bike lanes and a hazard lane on the north side. This is entirely wasteful. The road is only ~1/3 of a mile and has a bike path running parallel ~50 yards to the north. There is no need to take a majority of the road for bikes when they have an adjacent path. Why not consider a "share the road" signage for bikes to travel with traffic for that 1/3 of a mile? Building multiple lanes for bikes has greatly reduced the amount of road available for vehicles to park/travel. Also, when you get the the intersection at the newly renamed "Steel Place" you get dumped into the Alewife traffic sans bike lane. Benefit = minimal. Really poor planning here.
3) Traveling down the street by car is really tight now. The 2-way travel is often encumbered by illegal parked cars, drop offs for ride sharing, double parked delivery vehicles, etc.
It used to be easy to travel down this road. Now its a headache. Taken as a whole, with the parking and bike paths you took a street that could easily accommodate 4 lanes, with parking on either side and 2 way traffic, into a single side parking with VERY TIGHT 2-way travel. Everything is more congested now, both during rush hour and off-hours. Anyone have any industrial grade paint thinner to fix this problem and try again?
