Well, that's a separate issue. Its too bad there's not a dedicated left-turn lane for people going west into Arlington, or if they just nixed that left altogether. But because of the maybe 5% of people who go left there, everybody else has to sandwich into the right lane.
I'm a native, but I see an unusual level of stupidity on the drive from Alewife to Broadway every evening. It starts out with the folks on Rt. 2 who refuse to make two separate lanes at the light to go left. Especially the ones who sit in the left "lane" but take the first right turn into Cambridge that's ten feet past the intersection.
Then we have the folks who sit there for ten seconds after the light turns green, so only five pairs of cars can make it through. Not to mention the traffic merging from the parkway and the little side road which never stops, not even on that tiny part of the cycle when you can actually go left from 2 onto 16.
Next we have the folks who drive slow in the left lane on Alewife so nobody can maneuver, the folks who turn left at Mass ave but refuse to use the cobblestones when the left-turn lane fills up, and so on...
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I'm a native, but I see an unusual level of stupidity on the drive from Alewife to Broadway every evening. It starts out with the folks on Rt. 2 who refuse to make two separate lanes at the light to go left. Especially the ones who sit in the left "lane" but take the first right turn into Cambridge that's ten feet past the intersection.
Then we have the folks who sit there for ten seconds after the light turns green, so only five pairs of cars can make it through. Not to mention the traffic merging from the parkway and the little side road which never stops, not even on that tiny part of the cycle when you can actually go left from 2 onto 16.
Next we have the folks who drive slow in the left lane on Alewife so nobody can maneuver, the folks who turn left at Mass ave but refuse to use the cobblestones when the left-turn lane fills up, and so on...