Davis Square Streetscape Meetings Scheduled for June, July, August

[joelbikesalot.livejournal.com]

http://www.somervillema.gov/news/davis-square-streetscape-meetings-scheduled-june-july-august

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[ron_newman]

The first one is tomorrow, Thursday June 21, and is an outdoor site visit. Meet in Statue Park near JP Licks at 6 pm.

(Joel, can you edit this post to add some description before your link?)

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

I probably can't make the meetings, but I have two suggestions for the main Davis traffic light:

1) Add transit priority. This would be easy for the busway -- just add a loop detector, and add pavement markings/signage to show drivers where to pull up when they're ready for a green. On the Holland St and College Ave approaches, it would require getting the T to add a transmitter to buses, so that could be a future project.

2) Get rid of the all-way walk light, and let people cross with the parallel green. Most people do this anyway. Pedestrians shouldn't have to face a don't walk light when it's perfectly safe to cross, especially where there's no cross traffic like at the Day Street crosswalk. It would also save a heck of a lot of red light time, which would reduce the typical huge backups that delay mass transit and cause cut-through traffic on small residential streets.

[ron_newman]

Next meeting is Tuesday, June 26, at 6 pm at the TAB building, 167 Holland Street.

After that, Tuesdays, July 17 and August 7, same time and location.