Luke Chatburn

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    1304 Cambridge St Cambridge, MA 02139, USA - Wellington-Harrington

    Double parking tickets are cheaper than hydrant tickets, so every person who feels like stopping for a while at Inman just double-parks, blocking one side of the road. Of course, tickets don't get issued, so people feel free to do it all the time.

    Ignoring the safety problems of the reduced visibility and trying to navigate around cars and avoid pedestrians crossing between cars and so on, it causes knock-on traffic problems for the rest of the city.

    During the afternoon and evening, this really slows down traffic, except when a truck unloads across from a double-parked car. Then Beacon St stops when people block intersections, and Hampshire, and Prospect, and Broadway... And so on. I've been stuck in hour-long gridlock in that area.

    Parking is, admittedly, at a premium at Inman square, but can we at least have some enforcement from the police who stop there or drive by, so that it might be a little bit more under control?

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    702 Massachusetts Ave Boston, MA 02118, USA - South End

    I've tried to cross on the northwest side of this intersection many times... Sometimes standing for five minutes or more on the curb. Never seen the lights change to let me across.

    Any chance we could get this fixed? It could cut down on the pedestrians constantly running across the road...

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    11 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142, USA - East Cambridge
    Road slopes with several generations of broken surface right before the crossing in the right lane. Leads to cars rolling towards the crossing as they stop unless they are actively braking. A bit unsafe :-/