Speaking of Road Issues

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. Who do you talk to if you feel an intersection needs a light or sign change?  Is it the city, or the alderman, do I just call 311?  Anyone have experience with this?

The intersection in question might technically be Arlington - - has anyone else noticed an issue at that 4 way intersection between Broadway and Rt 16/Alewife Brook Parkway?

If you are going down Broadway from Somerville going towards Arlington and need to make a left onto 16 you get a green light and the traffic coming the opposite direction is stopped. 

However, since you have a green light if you haven't driven through there a bunch of times you don't know they are stopped on the other side until you wait a bit and they don't go.  I have seen people needing to go left stop at this green light expecting traffic from the opposite direction to go and this seems dangerous.  I feel like if the traffic coming from Somerville has the right of way there they should have a green arrow not a green light.

Thoughts?

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

The signal on that street allows eastbound traffic on Broadway (i.e. from Somerville) to proceed before westbound traffic (i.e. from Arlington).

In particular, that means that if you have a green light, and you're turning left, you actually have the right of way since the traffic in the other direction has a red light. But there is NOTHING at the intersection to clue you in to this.

The intersection needs a green arrow or at the very least an "opposing traffic has delayed green" sign. There are a bunch of other lights that really need this, for that matter, but that's one of the ones I find the most aggravating. It's not surprising that drivers around here act so crazy, when they learn driving from fucked-up intersections like that.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

"opposing traffic has delayed green"

this.