Single issue voter

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Hello,

Can someone tell me who caters least to families, children, and "no turn between 7-9 a.m." signs in the upcoming election?

Thanks!

Comments

[ron_newman]

I'm unfamiliar with the idea of streets that are one-way during certain hours of the day. What is the purpose of this?

[ifotismeni]

to keep people from taking shortcuts and clogging up the side roads during rush hour.

[perich.livejournal.com]

Traffic, usually. It keeps streets from being blocked up by people wanting to turn left into a heavy flow of cars.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

It's for traffic management with two purposes of which I aware: to prevent people from using small residential streets as detours and also prevent back-ups behind cars waiting to turn left.

So, for example, you can't turn left onto Kidder from College during certain hours.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

It's not that they are nec. one way - Jasper St. has a no right turn onto it from pearl st eatsbound during rush hours ... but the oncoming westbound traffic can turn left onto it.

Now if only the PD would enforce the no left turn from westbound pearl into the gas station at pearl and mcgrath.

[ron_newman]

I ride my bike through there several times a week and have never noticed the left turners causing any kind of problem. There seems to be no need for that sign.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

There seems to be no need for that sign.

That's what I'm talking about.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Then you've never seen the traffic congestion the people turning into that gas station cause, ruining commute times for everyone else.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I've noticed it when they are blocked by eastbound traffic waiting at the light, and now the people trying to make the illegal left turn into the gas station are causing westbound traffic to back up into the intersection, which is why, I believe, the sign is there.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

The city refuses to ease traffic by allowing spillover onto side streets, presumably for things like kids who are unable to look both ways when crossing the street and stay at home moms.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I don't know that it'd do shit, to be honest. About half the streets around here are narrow as all hell.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Except, I make great time whenever I cut across side streets. I'll shave five, ten, even fifteen minutes off a commute, easy.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Lake street to route 2. Street connecting broadway and mass ave in arlington. Streets connecting broadway and powderhouse. The list goes on...

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

What's so special about Somerville that it's worth the hassle of living here? Why not move closer to where you work and shave 30 minutes or more off of your commute?

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

What really makes it worthwhile for me are the strong families and children.

[imvfd.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, very clever. But seriously, it's not like Somerville is the cheapest location in the greater Boston area. It's not the cultural epicenter of Boston. So what's so special about being here that's worth spending an hour or more in your car every day?

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

More burrito joints per square mile than any other city in the area?

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

I pay 400 bucks a month in an exurb right next to Boston?

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

The worst example in the area has to be the right turn from Route 16 northbound to Whittemore Avenue, near Alewife. The Route 16/Mass Ave traffic light is a disaster, so turning onto Whittemore easily saves between 10 and 20 minutes.

Cambridge recently extended the no-right-turn hours to 3-7 pm (formerly 4-6 pm). Now things are much worse between 6 and 7 pm -- traffic backs up Route 16 onto Route 2 past the bowling alley.

When they ban the use of alternate routes, why can't they also try to fix the underlying problem on the main route?

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! That turn is the bane of my existence.

[rainbow-spork.livejournal.com]

You also can't turn onto Cogswell Ave from Mass Ave during rush hour, but it's kind of pointless at the moment, since the Walden St bridge is closed, which I assume is where all the rush hour drivers were headed.