Powder House Circle traffic violations

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

I've grown increasingly alarmed at the cars running red lights at Powder House Circle.  You take your life into your own hands crossing through there.   Having a walk signal isn't enough to ensure you will survive, you have to make sure no cars are close enough to reach you if they don't decide to stop for their red light.  I shudder to think how dangerous it would be to cross if one was a senior or not able to move quickly.

I realize the design of the rotary is somewhat confusing for the driver and somewhat easy to miss the traffic light as they go around the circle, but I don't really care, one of the most basic part of driving is obeying traffic lights and not injuring people.  

So I guess I'll take this to an alderman, or resistat, or the committee on traffic or something.  Just wondering if there have been efforts in the past.  It seems to me a camera should be installed there and fines issued.  Could be a revenue generator for the city.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Which is 'the Route 16 rotary'? The one where Mystic Valley Parkway meets it, at the Arlington-Somerville border?

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

http://g.co/maps/hdhg9

The one in Everett.

[ron_newman]

That used to be an ordinary rotary, without signals and without the road going through the middle. I don't know why they changed it.

[gingicat]

Wellington Circle.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

That's not the Wellington Circle.

[ron_newman]

Although I think Wellington Circle was also once a true rotary; I don't know why they changed it to what it looks like now.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Wellington Circle has the highest accident rate of any intersection in Massachusetts.

I think they should build an underpass for Route 16, and make all the remaining surface roads narrower.