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Sometime last week they changed this from a 2 phase to a 3 phase light. Boston Ave used to have both sides go at the same time, now the southbound side goes first, then the northbound side. Honestly, it's an improvement since everyone turning left can just go. I'm guessing with these new lights...

I've used this a couple of times on my morning commutes the past couple of weeks. It's OK. The section between Back and Beacon is still just full of parked cars, and if you're riding it in the contraflow direction there's no good way to take a right turn to head westbound that doesn't involve...

I feel like it would be possible to delete that off ramp and therefore eliminate the weave if they allowed straight-through traffic from South St and the eastbound off ramp. However, they seem to really not want to allow most turns onto the eastbound on-ramp except for traffic traveling north on...

MassDOT had another meeting about the Mystic/Main St/MVP Intersection improvements on Wednesday and posted the documents here. Looks like they took a lot of the feedback from the first meeting, including a suggestion from myself and others to do raised cycletracks next to the sidewalks instead...

It makes sense to do fare enforcement on bus and surface Green Line; but they're starting enforcement on the GLX, which probably *could* (should) have faregates installed.

It looks like they're reconfiguring/restriping Roosevelt Circle in Medford. The way it's currently painted is pretty haphazard but they're now delineating lanes on the Fellsway northbound and trying to force Fellsway traffic to yield to off ramp traffic. They're also making the right lane from...

Joined the meeting for this project yesterday in Medford. It's not even at 25% design yet so there's hopefully changes that could be made to improve the design after all of the feedback MassDOT and the consulting firm received last night. There seemed to be a lot of enthusiasm from residents for...

If that's the case then it would still be possible, they'll just have to stagger the platforms and have the travel lanes swerve around the platforms which shouldn't be a huge deal:

In the Streetsblog article it said it was between 55 and 60 feet curb to curb, which isn't counting the sidewalks. So with sidewalks it's more like 75 to 80 feet (which measure distance on google maps seems to confirm) so that means you can easily fit everything in: The only caveat would be...

With MCI Concord shutting down in June would there be any potential for MassDOT upgrading the Concord Rotary on a quicker timeline? Seems like with the prison no longer in use it would really simplify construction.

I agree. Didn't they not too long ago get rid of the overpasses over the rotary that connected to Mystic Ave? Seems like an awful idea to go ahead and add another overpass to that area again. The whole Rutherford/Sullivan area is a mess of 1950s highway engineering that needs to be blown up and...

Not sure which thread to post this in. Ended up catching one of the old Budd cars that used to be stored under 93 being moved through West Medford earlier today. I assume it’s going somewhere to finally be scrapped.

Agreed. The trail is in decent enough shape that I have no problem riding it on my Trek road bike with 700x28c tires on deep dish carbon wheels. If I want to go fast I'll stick to 62 but the trail is fine for most road bikes. Yeah it's more comfortable on a 32c tubeless setup like I have on my...

For someone like me it doesn't make a difference. I'll ride up it at 15 mph and not care about how drenched in sweat I get because at either end I'm taking a shower. But if you're using it to run errands or just generally get around I can see how the slope could be annoying. I think a majority...

I went down Beacon/Hampshire to work this morning and the milled pavement looked a lot worse than it actually was. I didn't really notice riding over it on 32c gravel tires. But I was also only going 10 mph behind a construction truck.

Majority of the painting is done for the new bike lanes in Medford on Mystic/South/Winthrop. Unfortunately I had to open a SeeClickFix ticket with the city because they painted the decals on backwards on the contraflow bike lane on South St. Mildly annoying but hopefully easy enough to fix.

I think in the planning document that section would become the new off ramp and the actual westbound road section would be shifted to the south. I can't really tell but it looks like they may be putting a signal at the crosswalk as well. So ideally cars would be slowing down for the turn and...

This is just an incredibly compacted Diverging Diamond interchange. They’re amazing for traffic flow but pretty awful for everything else. They make sense for connecting an interstate to a major arterial. I don’t really see the use case for using one between two state routes that both have...

I don't see how turning one big intersection into 5 smaller intersections in the same footprint and making it so traffic can't go east to north is better. Then again there's not really a great solution for this area since people are going to continue to use the Fellsway as a way to get around...

I've ridden it the past two days going to/from work just to see how it compares to my normal ride down Beacon/Hampshire. It's not as direct or as fast but it's more relaxing. The path is pretty narrow and there are some head scratchers like the curb cut at School St. being completely misaligned...