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    156 Hampshire St Cambridge, MA 02139, USA - Cambridge
    I'd like to be able to stay on the shady (east) side of Tremont on hot summer mornings and also have the expectation that motorists will stop for me as I cross Hampshire. Can you please paint a zebra crossing aligned with the east side of Tremont St?
  • Pothole Archived
    87-109 Fellsway Medford, MA, 02155, USA - Medford
    Not really a pothole, but functionally equivalent. The bike lanes in both directions of the MA-28 bridge all the way across are full of nickel-sized gravel and look like they haven't been street-cleaned in months. No way am I riding in that lane, which means someone driving 0.8 miles to the grocery store to get a gallon of milk and texting their kid or putting mustard on their sandwich while mis-steering 4000 lbs of steel is gonna get annoyed if they see me -- or run me over if they don't.
  • 212 Inman St Cambridge, MA 02139, USA - Cambridge
    whoops! The new bus stop installed on the eastbound side of Hampshire is facing the wrong way! the glass panels are between the seats and the street rather than between the streets and the sidewalk. If you're sitting in the seats, you have to turn your back to the bus in order to leave the seats and get on the bus. (how did this happen?)
  • 1 Us-3 Cambridge, MA 02140, USA - North Cambridge
    two fouls here. first, this is a major intersection and pedestrians are always waiting. why is there a pedestrian big light instead of walk lights being incorporated into the regular cycle? And second, if there's going to be a pedestrian bed light, why is it impossible to reach from the sidewalk? there's four feet of gravel between the sidewalk and the button. Good luck maneuvering there in a wheelchair without going into the street.
  • Litter Archived
    62 Alford St Boston, MA 02129, USA - Charlestown
    "litter" isn't really the right category, but the bike lane going across the 99 bridge northbound is full of nickel-sized rocks and other debris
  • Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA - Mid-Cambridge
    I don't have a photo of this, just something I am pretty sure I've noticed: when traffic coming from Garden St SB or Mass Ave SB makes the left-hand turn to go onto Mass Ave NB, the walk light to cross Mass Ave from Harvard Yard west towards the little bike repain stand/public toilet stays red. The traffic from the Harvard Square side going NB on Mass Ave can't proceed when Garden St traffic has the left turn light, so there shouldn't be any conflict between pedestrians crossing south of that left turn, but still the peds don't get a green when the Garden left has a green.
  • 12 Chatham St Cambridge, MA 02139, USA - Mid-Cambridge
    ma plate 9fr132 idling on the side of the road with no one in sight.
  • 353 Cambridge Street Boston, MA, 02135, USA - Allston-Brighton

    Since there's no curb cut at the foot of the footbridge, it is impossible to ride a bike on Cambridge St EB from the corner of Harvard Ave. Therefore the only option is to ride on the northern sidewalk of Cambridge St, which is completely unlit save for the glare of oncoming headlights; uneven in height (bumps and juts); and uneven in width (cutouts for trees that aren't even there). It is impossible to properly see the sidewalk at night with all these factors at play.

    Unbelievable that at the bottom of a footbridge there is such a poor quality sidewalk with no curb cut and no bike lanes on the adjacent street, in either direction of Cambridge St.

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    341-347 Cambridge St Boston, MA, 02134, USA - Allston-Brighton
    There is no curb cut into WB Cambridge St from the footbridge. There is also no crosswalk across Cambridge St leading to the footbridge.
  • Terminal B + Arrivals 1 Lex Boston, MA 02128, USA - East Boston
    literally the entire circumference of terminal b is loaded with illegal parking, which has brought the valid traffic there (eg silver line, buses) to a crawl.
  • 2186 Harvard Bridge Boston, MA 02115, USA - Back Bay
    unbelievably, some dolt decided to abandon this sign machine in the middle of the bike lane with its metal towing end sticking out even further. hope I'm not the one who plows into it at night.
  • Other Archived
    Harvard Bridge Massachusetts Ave Bridge, Boston, MA 02115, USA - US Congressional District MA8
    I guess it's time to put a real bike lane in, with proper concrete barriers.
  • 182 Massachusetts Ave Boston, MA, 02115, USA - Fenway-Kenmore
    Hyundai Sonata 8AY 379 (Massachusetts) driver dumped his car on the bike lane right at the merge point where the separated lane joins back to the main roadway.
  • 19 Trowbridge St Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA - Mid-Cambridge
    The northbound Trowbridge St bike lane has several clusters of a lot of glass throughout the stretch between Mass Ave and Harvard. Maybe all the way to Broadwat but I think it's mostly south of Harvard.
  • Other Archived
    241 Western Ave Cambridge, MA 02139, USA - Riverside

    with decreased flow rate of cars because of Coronavirus, the drivers that *are* driving on Western Ave - one of the only wide, straight, well-paved streets with a separated bike lane in town - are going much too fast, some easily more than 40mph. In addition to the obvious safety issue, this is a quality if life issue as well, because drivers breaking the law and driving 40 is much louder than them driving 20.

    here are some suggestions:
    - actually enforce the laws that are in the books and pull over drivers who drive over the speed limit (this is great for the city too! think of all the traffic fines!)
    - pour pebbles over the road to make driving 40 mph a less attractive option
    - reduce the street to just three lanes for cars (i.e.: two for storing private property in the road and one for driving) so as to widen the sidewalk z reduce the street to just three lanes for cars (i.e.: two for storing private property in the road and one for driving) so as to widen the sidewalk especially on the south side of the street.
    - reduce the street to just three lanes for cars (i.e.: two for storing private property in the road and one for driving) so as to open a contraflow bike lane going from the river to Central Sq in the closed lane because people already bike the wrong way in the bike path
    - take the garbage bins that often get dumped in the bike lane and push them into the street to reduce it's width and make Western appear more winding like the rest of the streets in town.
    - put signs and streetlights in the middle of the lane just like they are usually placed in the middle of sidewalks. instead of hindering people who push strollers or use wheelchairs, let them get in the way of lawless drivers
    - actually enforce the laws that are in the books and pull over drivers who drive over the speed limit (this is great for the city too! think of all the traffic fines!)

  • 149 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA - The Port

    This driver in the NB side of Mass Ave just before the tracks between Vassar and Albany. Swerved into the bike lane without signalling, then swore at me when I pointed out what he did, then swore again when I took out the camera, then entered the parking lot only to leave it again, and never discharged his passengers (if in fact that was what he was trying to do when he drove into the bike lane?) before continuing NB on Mass Ave. I was riding with a slower rider and therefore wasn't able to keep up with him but there was relatively heavy traffic for a Saturday night and I would have been even with him at the light at Sidney St.

    Saturday night 1/11/2020 10:25pm

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    Longfellow Bridge Boston, MA 02114, USA - US Congressional District MA8
    the speed sign is cute but drivers regularly travel upwards of 45 mph while cresting the Longfellow bridge. especially if the winter "safety" plan calls for removing the flexposts, the speed limit of 25mph needs to be enforced. bonus: fundraiser for the state!
  • 1388-1398 Cambridge Street Cambridge, Massachusetts - Wellington-Harrington

    I posted the following in the Cambridge Bikes facebook group and figured it should go here as well

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/78469433513/permalink/10154802216398514/

    I was out of town for the past month, including the announcement of the new traffic pattern in Inman and the first week or so of that pattern
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    When I returned for the weekend, I went down to check it out (and do a little interference) for myself. Here are some thoughts (numbers below correlate to numbers in the images):

    1 - the No Left sign on the eastern crook of Camb/Hamp is really ambiguous! Can I not veer left from Hampshire EB to Cambridge? Can I not turn left from Cambridge EB to Springfield? Both?
    2 - the double-sided no-left sign dangling from the light between urgent care and the firehouse is OK from afar but by the time you're close enough to be attempting the left form Hampshire WB to Cambridge, it's already over your head and out of vision range. It was also whipping around quite a bit in the Friday afternoon wind
    3- Are there plans to actually paint the arrows in the lanes on Hampshire as they already are on Cambridge WB? That's simple and really the only thing you can reasonably hope drivers will see.
    4 - The interference I mention was me standing in the new green bike box on Cambridge WB between the island and the urgent care, when Hampshire had a green light. As the occasional car put their left signal on and would wait for their old left, I just stood in the green box and pointed to the new no-left sign. In I think 6 of the 8 cases the driver took a route similar to the yellow one, following the new pattern. In two cases they continued through the red X onto Cambridge, which is now not allowed. I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO TRY THIS! One of the two who went through seemed genuinely not to have seen any of the flashing signs or no left turn signs and said now he'd know for next time. (The other was a dick, which to be fair is surely what he thought of me as well.)
    5 - I saw no enforcement whatsoever. This was on Friday afternoon around 3 pm.

  • 117 Malden Street Revere, Massachusetts - Revere

    Westbound Malden St in Revere is full of drainage grates with bars parallel to the direction of travel. (Eastbound may have them as well, but I only rode this route westbound.) Similar to trolley or train tracks parallel to the direction of travel, parallel grates in the direction of travel means that a bicycle wheel that goes over the grate will get caught, flipping the rider into the road.

    Do a google search for parallel grate bicycle to see just how many states and municipalities have taken corrective action on this extremely dangerous road features. When is Revere's turn?

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    72 Properzi Way Somerville, Massachusetts - Somerville
    Can't pass on the south sidewalk because the property is poorly maintained right at the spot that a utility pole eats up half the sidewalk. I'm happy to trim their bushes back myself one night but the pole still has to move. Why not put it into the street as a traffic calming measure like Cambridge did at the bike lane at Main and Broadway?
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