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]

This strikes me as a pretty minor annoyance. People are going slowly enough that this won't cause any accidents.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

No accidents, you're right.

It does, however, cause a gridlock on a major artery.

when pearl st locks because of eastbound left turns having to yield to the now stopped westbound traffic, waiting for the numbskull who can't make the left turn into the gas station, because the eastbound lane is full with no gaps, because the westbound lane has right of way over the eastbound left hand turn ...

And now the light has changed, and mcgrath has pearl st traffic stuck in the middle of it, because Massachusetts won't enact don't block the box laws with fines.

That's why that turn is illegal.

[ron_newman]

I'd personally like to see McGrath re-designed back into the parkway it was orignally built as. If you continue up Fellsway into Medford and Melrose, you'll see what it should look like.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

that'll never happen now that's it's become a major artery.

what exactly is your definition of a parkway, so we're working off the same terms?

[ron_newman]

A road with trees planted in the median and on either side, easily crossed by pedestrians, not fenced in the middle. Like Fellsway in Medford. That's the same road as McGrath, so whatever works there will work equally as well in Somerville.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

That could happen I guess.

To actually put trees in the median on that part of mcgrath (wellington circle to medford/highland) would require losing lanes of traffic, though, wouldn't it?

[ron_newman]

Probably, but I don't think you need them, since you don't have them up in Medford.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that part of the fellsway in medford doesn't have the volume due to 16 and 60 feeding to 93, and what it has it loses at wellington circle, and at 93.

Whereas mcgrath picks up that volume from broadway, pearl, and highland/medford, AND from those who haven't left 28 yet.

28 in Medford, IMO isn't the huge artery it is after you go under 93 and pass by foss park.

I live in ten hills, now, used to live in the gilman square triangle, and my g/f used to live off of ball square - I've seen the volume on mcgrath every morning, and it's ridiculous.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

I have to agree, I think getting rid of lanes is a poor choice.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Do you have any information about the former configuration of McGrath? I'm not sure it used to be a parkway.