mlacy120

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    80 Chestnut Street Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA - Cambridgeport
    Yellow bicycle has been locked to the bike post for ages, seems to have been left behind by a prior tenant. It is very rusted and the tires are flat.
  • 140 Waverly St Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA - Cambridgeport
    Construction crew in the lot near Waverly has placed large planks of wood in the street, blocking much of the bike lane and several inches thick. When I stopped today to move them out of the road, a construction worker told me they put these here so that trucks can drive up over the sidewalk "all day long" without damaging the curb. When I told him that bikes need to be able to ride safely on this road "all day long" he shrugged and said to just go around them. Waverly is heavily traveled by both cars and bikes, and a dedicated bike lane is important here. The wooden blocks are left there all day and presumably all night, when they would be difficult to see and especially unsafe. The construction crew needs to be advised to find a better solution that allows safe travel on the road - their work is not in the road itself.
  • 730 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridgeport
    There is poor drainage at the entrance to the Trader Joe's/Micro Center parking lot, right where the sidewalk/bike path crosses. It floods every time it rains and in the cold weather it freezes, making an impossible spot for bikes and pedestrians. It's not easy to just cross to the other side of Memorial Drive, I am forced to either bike with car traffic or get my feet and wheels (and brakes) covered in water and ice - very unsafe either way. Flooding at this spot has been an issue for a long time, I don't know why it has never been addressed.
  • 369-401 Kimberly Avenue West Haven, Connecticut - Hill
    I often commute by bike and there's always lots of shattered glass all over the road and sidewalks on the Kimberly Ave bridge - unsettling and unsafe. Today I almost crashed due to a huge rock (6-8 inches large) in the road, just out of reach for a car but right in the way where a bike would ride - narrowly avoided a serious accident (possibly life-threatening with such high speed traffic). I guess this is right on the line between New Haven and West Haven so nobody ever cleans up this stretch of road and sidewalk, it's always littered with smashed glass.
  • 66-88 College Street New Haven, Connecticut - Downtown
    Driving on College St through the intersection with Frontage Rd, there are painted lane stripes left over from an earlier phase of construction and no longer line up with the current lanes. Drivers in the leftmost lane (before the intersection) driving straight ahead tend to be cut off by drivers coming from the lane to the right, who either inadvertently follow the old line or are led to believe the lanes shift, which they don't. Signs and/or updated street lines should be put in to prevent such dangerous confusion.
  • 384-406 Humphrey Street New Haven, Connecticut - SOHU
    I am a cyclist, and not only is Orange St littered with dangerous potholes, but there is a large poorly-patched area at the intersection of Humphrey and Orange. Poorly finished construction work that needs to be re-finished, featuring a large metal plate that gets dangerously slick when wet and icy. Please keep cyclists in mind, that the condition of roads and potholes become exceedingly dangerous for us while it may be only a flat-tire-inducing annoyance for cars.