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One of the worst places in Boston to be a pedestrian
By adamg on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 9:27pm
Shirley explains why it's the stretch from the Liberty Hotel to the Longfellow Bridge, where pedestrians have to battle with drivers coming out of Charles Circle, in particular, motorists coming off Cambridge and Charles streets:
... These people are hitting their gas pedal to accelerate on the on ramp onto any of the Storrow Drive entrances and being already frustrated by the long red lights, they are not letting any measly pedestrians stop them from where they need to be going. It is scary because most of them do not use their signals, or even if they do, a pedestrian cannot really tell which way the vehicle is heading. I urge Boston to please, reconsider pedestrianizing this intersection. ...
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Bleeping crosswalks
Last time I checked there was also a fault with the noises the crosswalks make such that the audio indicators suggest its OK to cross ALL the time. I nearly died thanks to that, and I don't even have any vision problems. Great idea right outside a hospital and an eye treatment center.
Charles St T stop
There's no question that the redesign of the Charles St T stop, eliminating the bridges across Cambridge St and over to Charles St, has created a pedestrian nightmare that will one day lead to someone being hit by a car. Removing the pedestrian bridges was a supremely stupid decision and will probably someday have to be reversed. It is just impossible to get through that intersection at rush hour without walking into traffic, accelerating to get onto Storrow or to miss the lights on Cambridge.
My other favorite new station is the Kenmore redesign that replaced brick with louvered glass that lets people stand in the rain and wind while they wait for their bus. Which glass, unless it's washed constantly, will turn gray then opaque from the traffic exhaust but still not protect from the weather.
Does anybody who works or designs for the T actually ride it?
Charles St T stop is much better than before
The old T stop required you to walk up stairs, then down stairs, then up some more stairs to get from the street to the platform. I much prefer the current station with its escalators and elevators.
The traffic here isn't really any worse than outside other busy T stations such as Harvard, Porter, and Davis.