A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint asking the city to do something about Roslindale Standoffs on McCraw Street, a short little stub of a road that's maybe only six cars long that runs (well, more like walks) from Belgrade Avenue to the Bellevue train station:
A Roslindale Standoff on McCraw St. The city needs to do something about the traffic situation on McCraw St in Roslindale. It's dangerous for everyone involved, including drivers, pedestrians making their way to the commuter rail, and Exodus Bagel customers waiting in line in the middle of the street for their order. It's a matter of time before someone gets hurt here
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Noted
By Boston_res
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:09pm
Noted
Thanks for the appropriate background music
By mg
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 2:31pm
Just what I needed today.
The solution is to close it
By anon
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:16pm
The solution is to close it to vehicles. It's a small dead end and serves no usefulness for drivers.
The abutters might disagree
By Waquiot
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 3:09pm
To start with, the auto body shop whose use of the street is apparent in the photograph. Add to that the newly built apartment building whose parking is accessed by the street. Finish it up with any service for the bakery at the end of the street.
It's a very useful street. In fact, perhaps too useful.
Bakeries existed long before
By Kinopio
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 8:32pm
Bakeries existed long before motor vehicles. It turns out you don’t need an 18 wheeler to deliver a bag of flour.
Bless your heart
By Waquiot
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 9:56pm
Oh, if you ever found out how the stores at which you buy the goods you consume get their deliveries, your head might explode.
If your blinders ever fell off…
By Lee
Sat, 05/11/2024 - 12:17am
… your head would explode.
Are you proposing the bakery
By anon
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 10:16am
Are you proposing the bakery get its deliveries by horse cart? Because that's how bakeries got deliveries before there were motor vehicles.
Remove the street parking
By KellyJMF
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:28pm
There should be zero parking on both sides of this street and a stripe down the middle.
It's a short, dead end street
By anon
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:35pm
It's a short, dead end street. Two way traffic is rare. Angle parking on one side might work better.
Two way traffic is rare
By anon
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 5:03pm
Make it a one-way street. That'll clear out all the traffic.
"Dangerous"?
By Waquiot
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:32pm
How is this dangerous? How are pedestrians endangered when cars cannot move?
Annoying? Yes. Frustrating? Sure. Dangerous? The Subaru backs out, the other 2 cars leave, and everyone gets on with their day. That's a solution.
Easy
By Tim Mc.
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 1:41pm
Drivers get frustrated and make sudden, ill-considered movements with their cars, including backwards. Happens all the time. I always move more cautiously around drivers who are frustrated and stuck in traffic because they're a lot less predictable than on a clear road.
Happens all the time on my street
By LarryW
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 1:59pm
Last year during Open Streets the police had to intervene to stop a Dominican man from starting a fight with an old lady. None of these people live on our street.
inquiring minds
By anon
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 2:50pm
how did you know he was Dominican?
it was
By Lanny Budd
Sun, 05/12/2024 - 10:44am
the robe
The Dominican flag in his window
By LarryW
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 10:14am
How do you think?
Ever try to cross a street…
By Lee
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 4:09pm
… at a blocked box intersection? It’s like trying to maneuver between the jaws of hungry crocodiles.
Actually
By Waquiot
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 9:53pm
Gridlock at Dartmouth and Stuart Streets in the Back Bay makes jaywalking easier.
That said, a comment like yours shows a certain ignorance of this area. Trust me, it’s a tempest in a teapot.
Trust me.
By Lee
Sat, 05/11/2024 - 12:16am
The ignorance is all yours.
You are assuming rationality
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 9:09pm
... and a willingness to work together to solve a problem for the common good.
Should be a Do Not Enter situation
By TCTC
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:36pm
There's no reason for cars to be on this street as far as I can tell. I think the auto shop uses it as a turn around/storage, but even Exodus asks that you not park there.
The auto shop is the second worst
By roz
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:50pm
The auto shop parks their cars blocking the crosswalk, on the sensors (so the lights change for no reason) and tear around the corner running the lights. (You can see the busted up car peaking out from the garage in that photo).
That being said... people getting bagels should not bother turning down the street. There are always spots 1/2 a block away.
Now... if you want to talk dangerous, the people dropping off their dogs who block the bike lane and the bus stop, they are a menace! The worst are the ones who double park on the other side of the road and just cross in front of traffic (caused by the other double parkers) so stupid and dangerous. Park up the block in the legal spots and walk your dog to the day care! So entitled and lazy!
Way too far
By Angry Dan
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 5:41pm
If motorists were willing to walk half a block they wouldn't be hauling a living room on wheels with them everywhere they go. Double parking remains the solution when there isn't a free spot within four or five car lengths of their destination.
??? Bro I hate entitled
By NoMoreBanks
Mon, 05/13/2024 - 10:14am
??? Bro I hate entitled drivers too but there's a difference between somebody who doesn't want to bike 16 miles to the nearest commuter rail station that runs once an hour and somebody who refuses to walk two blocks from a parking space to their destination.
Some of the commenters here really have lost all sense of nuance.
This Street Should be Pedestrianized
By HenryAlan 2.0
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 1:04pm
There is no need for cars to be on this street at all, with the exception of a specified hour for deliveries to Exodus Bagels. There is no through route for the cars, nobody lives on the street, so no need for parking. It would be a great little plaza for enjoying bagels and safely accessing the train station.
the garage entrance for 317 Belgrade is on McCraw
By dshea
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 1:18pm
so the problem is ultimately the neighborhood's fault: demand parking for new apartments, then complain when people drive to and from the apartments
Or the failure of the architect and developers.
By Lee
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 4:11pm
And whoever approved parking and garage entry on that street.
Eh
By blues_lead
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 4:50pm
The architect and developers would probably have preferred no parking - it's expensive to build and doesn't bring in much rent. The city doesn't want more curb cuts on the main street for good reason - garage entrances are dangerous and bad urban form (meaning people walking along the street find them uncomfortable).
It has two sidewalks.
By anon
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 6:38pm
Maybe a bike lane?
It’s a busy business area and always has been. Blocking off the street to all traffic will simply push the traffic onto Belgrade. Then you’ll complain about that.
Bakeries do not need door to
By Kinopio
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 8:35pm
Bakeries do not need door to door service. Plenty of bakeries exist on pedestrian only streets in places like Paris and other cities that realized vehicles in cities are bad and dumb.
Pedestrian only?
By merlinmurph
Sat, 05/11/2024 - 9:49am
Those "pedestrian only" streets generally have controlled bollards that go down to allow deliveries.
Red lights
By Mark-
Fri, 05/10/2024 - 8:41pm
They could quit making the traffic light stop Belgrade Ave traffic every two minutes whether there’s anybody on McGraw St. or not. I realize that there are a certain number of people who want to impede all motorized vehicles, but throwing out unnecessary roadblocks just helps create road rage.
What creates road rage
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 05/11/2024 - 5:20pm
Assholes.
Entitled assholes.
Road rage doesn't happen because of road conditions or traffic. It happens because drivers who are entitled assholes truly believe that they have a personal right to jump into a motorized vehicle many times the size of their bodies and actually go anywhere at any time at the maximal speed they choose - and that anything else and everyone else is just "in their way".
That's what creates road rage.
Road conditions don't create toddler brains.
road rager
By Lanny Budd
Sun, 05/12/2024 - 10:47am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIF4u7hANbY&t=5s
If there was a functioning
By anon
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 11:55am
If there was a functioning traffic sensor, it would no longer be our Boston!