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Emergency one-way streets in South Boston to become regular two-way streets again
By adamg on Fri, 05/08/2015 - 6:34pm
Seems people in South Boston disliked the emergency one-way streets enacted during the winter snow crisis so much that the city is returning them to their former two-way status starting this Wednesday.
During the winter, city officials said one way was working so well on the streets that they planned to keep them that way until June 1 - and maybe forever. But Mayor Walsh announced today that:
After thoughtful consideration and hearing from the South Boston community, we have decided to end the emergency reconfiguration. This plan relieved traffic congestion and increased public safety during our most challenging winter months, but now it is time to return to our normal traffic flow and welcome the spring season.
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Comments
I'd say this means...
...they've finally got 'em plowed.
Good job.
What happened to the angled parking?
I thought they were going to try that out on the newly minted one-ways.
It would have been nice to see how it turned out.
The city studied it. It didn
The city studied it. It didn't work.
worked just fine
....people in Southie just love to bitch about everything under the sun.
Gays, yuppies, bike lanes, yuppies, one way streets, yuppies...
Haterade
The community meeting was packed with all types of residents so thanks for your enlightened input but next time try using your brain for something other than hate.
P.s. kick rocks
The City
Didn't do the street configuration in East Boston, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, North End, South End, Dorchester, Roxbury, Roslindale, West Roxbury, Mattapan, Allston, Brighton or Hyde Park. So shut your face.
Got Me Thinking
Your comment got me thinking about how many non-one way streets there are in the neighborhoods you listed. My memory and Google Maps recall these two way, non-separated, non-dead end streets in some of your aforementioned neighborhoods:
Back Bay
Beacon Hill
South End
At least for these neighborhoods (the ones with which I am most familiar), it didn't really make sense to reconfigure these streets to one ways.
Anyway, this was a fun morning activity. Did I miss any? Does anyone else want to do the other neighborhoods?
Where are the results of this
Where are the results of this study? The city released the news at 5pm on a Friday, which is normally what they do for announcements of failures which need to be buried.
But this ETR experiment doesn't seem like much of a failure. The city tried something out of necessity, it worked for a while, people preferred the old way, so they're reverting back, no harm done. It would be great for everyone to know what the city learned in the process. One way streets do have a place in transportation planning, and might make sense for a few streets in the city.
Quite possibly
the dumbest idea since the war on drugs...
Angled parking on both sides which would, in theory, create more parking isn't even viable based on the size of most side streets. Angled parking on one side would actually create less parking due to all the spacing needs for curb cut driveways and fire hydrants. Also, if there were cars on only one side of the street vehicle traffic would be pushed closer to the opposite sidewalk, potentially making things more dangerous for pedestrians; especially considering the increased likelihood of cars swerving in that direction to avoid parked cars backing/pulling out of spots.
Good
Two-way streets move traffic better, and are safer for everyone. Mostly because people instinctively drive slower on them (or instinctively speed on one-ways).