Ben

This looks like it will be a new bicycle lane. it is also the car door zone: the most dangerous place on the whole street for cyclists. If you would like to put cyclists at the greatest possible risk of injury, then this will accomplish that.

The area marked as a bike lane is swept by the doors of parked cars. Being doored is one of far the most dangerous threats to cyclists, and to even suggest that cyclists should ride in the most dangerous part of the road is murderous. Novice and timid cyclists will ride there and risk severe injury—because of the painted instructions from an authority whom we need to be able to trust. Well-trained cyclists will ride in the safe area that is not swung by car doors, but irate car drivers will become angry at cyclists and use the painted "bike lane" as an excuse for anti-cyclist violence. This design is unforgivably dangerous. We know better.

Please see the extra (contrast) photo, where planners created safe infrastructure. Cyclists are not at risk from car doors and will not conflict with motorists, the bike lane is wide enough that cyclists can safely ride two abreast, fast cyclists can pass slow cyclists, etc, and is sufficiently well marked that drivers won't "accidentally" use it.

I found this ambiguous. Can people with a Cambridge permit park here for up to 2 hours, and people without a permit not at all? Or can people with a permit park here indefinitely and people without a permit park for up to 2 hours? I assumed both signs apply to me, but judging from parking patterns here, perhaps I get to choose which one is relevant...?

The parking sign allows people to stick their cars into the marked bike lane. looks like the sign should be moved about 20 ft further down the street, or the bike lane repainted.

NOT specific to this location, but here's a great example:

A private vehicle stopped in the middle of the road to unload passengers and luggage. It took several minutes while traffic backed up behind. But there was nowhere for them to pull off that was convenient for the elderly passengers to disembark due to extremely dense private vehicle storage all up and down the public street, essentially forcing them to block the road. As soon as that cleared, there was another vehicle illegally pulled halfway into the intersection because again there was nowhere to legally stop. As rideshares and online shopping become more popular, the same thing happens with an increasing number of delivery services: no longer just UPS and USPS and FedEx everyday, but now ten or more dropoff services park illegally and obstruct flow of cars, pedestrians, bikes, whatever they're blocking. An enforced loading zone on every block would mitigate this.

This seems consistent with the latest Cambridge parking report: replacing private parking with space that serves the common good reduces the incentive to drive while increasing public benefit of public land.

It would be great to have a 10-minute loading zone on every block.

dead simple. The bike plane is obstructed. there is to be protection. cyclists cannot be expected to safely dodge in and out of aggressive traffic at this intersection. there are two car lanes where there need only be one, so cyclist safety can be insured.

Thousands of instances THROUGHOUT CAMBRIDGE, NOT just the location of this photo:

Many street signs have rusty wires like this hanging off them. They snag and tear umbrellas and raincoats, especially on the narrower sidewalks where they're harder to avoid. Worse, they're almost always right around eye-level for me or someone I know---don't walk around Cambridge without wearing eye protection or being current on your tetanus shots? ;)

I believe they're used when you put up temporary car-management signage. When the signs come down, please clean the wires as well. Meanwhile, can we add this to the list of costs caused by cars, and pay for it out of the parking and/or gas tax budget?

In the short term, it would be good to do a sweep of all of Cambridge and remove all of them so we can start clean. This hazard has been building up for a long time due to laziness on the part of whomever removes the signs, and it would of course have been far more efficient if they'd taken care of it when they removed the signs, but that didn't happen, and now we probably ought to just pay for the fix.

Handicap parking signpost obstructs entrance through gate.

I know this is a human entrance and not a car entrance, but it's the one I need to use to get long bulky objects (canoe, tandem bike, bike with trailer) in and out of my back yard, and the signpost blocks that---not great for tandem bikes either, but at least passable. It would be great if it were not right in line with the walkway---about 2' to the right would both allow plenty of room for passage of bulky objects through the gate and still mark the 2 handicap spots in front of the house. I've seen similar situations in a few places around the city: might be nice to keep an eye out for this going forward...

Moving the signpost a couple of feet would be annoying for you. I wonder if there might be an easier solution. Can we discuss?

Not at this location but THROUGHOUT CAMBRIDGE

Many icy sidewalks, passages between sidewalks and crosswalks, etc.

Therefore I walk on the streets, but some drivers get angry and try to intimidate me off the streets, sometimes by hitting me as they speed by.

You'll probably say that it's the responsibility of homeowners to clear the sidewalks. How well do you think that's working out for our pedestrians?

Suggestions for improvement:
- Cambridge should shovel Cambridge's sidewalks, otherwise they're unreliable. Remember: a few of us use cars, but EVERYONE walks. It is the fundamental form of transportation, available to everyone.
- Cambridge should lower car speed limits. Note that this would probably not affect trip times, but would reduce about 4 kinds of pollution, and improve safety and liveability.
- Cambridge police should try to issue a speeding ticket to a motor vehicle at least once per month ;) If they really can't find any violators, they can feel free to contact me.

I just got back from a walk around Cambridge after the snow. There are literally hundreds of people out playing in the snow, enjoying the public streets due to the vast reduction in car traffic making the space safe for humans. Including children jumping in snowbanks. And talking. And laughing. It's quite annoying. People, and especially children, have no business in public streets. Please make every possible effort to get all the cars, and especially the bigger trucks, back on the roads as soon as possible, and ideally raise the speed limits, so the children are forced back into their bedrooms where they belong.

Following up on https://seeclickfix.com/issues/5282987

The police responded to the previous request by increasing patrols. I think it worked briefly, maybe? But of course we were never told. And now it's ancient history in the minds of the drivers: another car just hit ~45 mph down this 20-mph street, and last week I saw a young girl almost get killed---she was in the crosswalk but the car was going too fast to even try to stop in time. She was quick enough to live...

The previous issue was closed but we were given no information. Could we please re-open discussion about this? Some ideas were floated, but no official responded. How about it? Speed-sensitive traffic lights, re-routing the one-way streets to make this "quiet residential street" less of a racetrack/highway, etc?

Thanks!

This is an example, but in general, sidewalks become impassable every trash day due to piles of garbage cans blocking the path. These need to be out elsewhere—when we have limited options we should be blocking the street, not the sidewalk. Why? Cars are a luxury convenience, strictly optional, usable by only a small proportion of the population, whereas *everyone* needs to be able to walk/wheelchair/etc safely.

Reaching out to community for help adding something useful to police report. (Ran us out of a crosswalk, then followed us for about a minute shouting abuse at us for having dared to cross the street when he was driving in it)

Chronic helicopter problem: I was awoken at 6:30 this morning by one, there's another buzzing my neighbourhood now, and generally there are a LOT of helicopters overhead, sometimes for hours. The sound is extremely invasive, and I know of a lot of research showing how harmful this kind of noise pollution is---it leads to heart disease, obesity, irritability, anger, antisocial behaviour... Seems like this is not the right venue to report such things, but the police don't care, the airport doesn't seem to care... so who does defend our right to quiet? Some cities do have noise laws that apply to air traffic, so we could in theory do the same, right?

SeeClickFix doesn't let me reopen an issue. https://seeclickfix.com/issues/4668256 was closed with the comment that the wires had been removed, but that was a lie.

Did you find someone sufficiently unethical to mark this as resolved? Given the text of 4668256, is it really possible to read the report as referring to just a single location in Cambridge, merely because the app requires that some street address be entered? Or was it "resolved" as "will not fix / don't care until someone rich gets injured seriously enough to sue us"? There are still thousands of these wires all over the place throughout Cambridge, posing varying degrees of risk. If SeeClickFix is supposed to serve the community, then DO NOT MARK RESOLVED UNTIL IT IS RESOLVED. There are people working hard on this problem-reporting system. Marking issues as resolved when they're not makes a mockery of their hard work, and insults the citizens who participate here in order to improve Cambridge.

Description days it all. maybe a public restroom would help.

I already filed this one. it was marked as "resolved" a couple of months ago, apparently incorrectly. Re-filing.

it is too common to see sidewalks blocked by trash cans. block cars instead, because while everyone needs to be able to walk/wheelchair, only half of us can drive cars. tell the trash collectors to make sure they don't screw over disabled people!