A concerned citizen files a 311 report about the carriageway heading north on West Roxbury Parkway:
There are NO speed limit signs anywhere along the ENTIRE lower West Roxbury Parkway. Cars use this as a speedway and to avoid the traffic on West Roxbury prkwy in the morning. It is extremely dangerous to walk along and the speeding cars getting worse.
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Allston/Comm Ave carriageway
By allstonrat
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 3:06pm
Also suffers from this. There aren't many stop signs and there are no speed limits posted. I've seen/heard tons of accidents at the carriage lane intersections because it's absolutely lawless.
What?
By BlackKat
Tue, 11/26/2019 - 8:21am
There are 25mph signs up and down Comm Ave, everyone knows the speed limit is 25mph in Boston, and if all that isn't enough there is a semi-permanent speed camera/digital sign parked right where the "CVS" turn was walled off to make it right turn only.
The speed limit for both the main road and carriage lanes is 25.
Let the games begin
By 617MoFoBecauseM...
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 3:58pm
617 or bust bebe. Vrrrrooooom vrooooom.
How's that 25 mph reactionary speed limit going?
By O-FISH-L
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 4:44pm
Has anyone tallied the number of speeding tickets and written warnings issued for driving over the much celebrated 25 mph limit? It shouldn't take long to count if there's any. All the signs in the world won't be effective without enforcement, sorely lacking on the BPD and MSP. I have long advocated a BPD traffic enforcement squad comprised of officers who enjoy the motor vehicle aspect of police work and strictly work on enforcement, no 911 calls unless a dire emergency. As noted before, district patrol cars are too busy shagging 911 calls to enforce traffic laws unless something unavoidable happens in front of them and they have little choice to make a stop. Last I checked, MSP was running with one trooper on the desk and two on the road per barracks, barely enough to cover crashes and disabled cars, never mind setting up radar, which requires a bit of time and strategy. They are planning on hiring 500 troopers next year.
It was long argued that the former Registry Police "paid for itself" with the fines issued. The State Police also had a "55 Squad' that only did radar on state roads. Half of the revenue from most fines goes back to the city or town where the ticket was issued so BPD could easily do this if they wanted. MSP should have done it long ago. It's more likely that our leaders have decided it's easier to "let it go" than get caught in a ticket fixing scandal.
MDC Cops?
By MrZip
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 4:57pm
Anyone else remember avoiding MDC roadways back in the day b/c of super heavy MDC enforcement (and the harsh treatment you would get if they pulled you over). Enforcement works.
For sure
By 617MoFoBecauseM...
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 9:19pm
This 61sevener remembers.
How many tickets written for
By Rob
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 8:52pm
How many tickets written for the universal 25? By MSP? Probably close to none. DCR and state roads that the MSP would have jurisdiction mostly aren't bound by the City universal limit. Some do have 25 specifically posted.
Hiring 500 troopers? How many a year have they been hiring? If there's a substantial difference between that and 500, do they have the capacity to train/certify that many extra?
I drive 25
By Mark-
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 10:08pm
On city streets that aren’t otherwise marked, I set my speed control to 25. And I really hope that you are in the car behind me.
ROAD DIET PART 2...Coming Soon!
By Roztonian
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 6:07pm
You loved it the first time, now get ready for West Roxbury Road Diet Part Two. Someone dropped a complaint on 311 so the city better haul ass to change up the entire road network.
And mark your calendars because Road Diet versions Washington St, Belgrade Ave, and Spring St. will be right behind it.
You are a pretty reliable UHub reader
By adamg
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 10:18pm
So surely you recall that the reason that the whole road-narrowing thing started in West Roxbury started not because of a 311 complaint but because a woman WAS HIT BY A CAR AND WENT FLYING INTO THE AIR AND DIED IN FRONT OF HER HUSBAND - at an intersection where pedestrians have been hit before.
Wrong, but don't let that stop you...
By Hubber
Tue, 11/26/2019 - 5:35am
Adam, you know that is totally incorrect so why mislead people. The road diet study was presented in May of 2017 by Northeastern and the Women was tragically hit near Hastings street in Feb of 2019 - not the other way around. You are just wrong. These are the facts so please dont let your bias skew narrative. And writing in ALL CAPS doesn't make your statement correct.
I am for Roadway improvements but let's try to keep it anhinest discussion. There is enough drama involved anyway without the managers of news sources adding to the misinformation.
Please
By adamg
Tue, 11/26/2019 - 10:26am
Yes, the Northeastern study came out in 2017. And you know what happened with it?
Absolutely nothing.
The professor who led it tried to interest BTD in the idea and they basically said "that's nice" and did absolutely nothing - they said they had more pressing concerns. If there were an Indiana Jones-type warehouse for traffic proposals, this one was buried in the deepest, most obscure box in a dust-covered crate in a dead-end corridor near the middle of the giant maze of the warehouse.
It was only after Marilyn Wentworth died and her survivors - and Matt O'Malley - found out about the proposal (who knows, maybe through this UHub article, based on a link I found on Google) and the Wentworths invited its author to a meeting/memorial a couple weeks later that BTD decided to dust the thing off and take a serious look at it.
That led to the infamous Holy Name meeting that nobody in West Roxbury knew about, aside from the several hundred people and Marty Keogh who showed up, the rise of the conspiracy theory about evil communist Big Bicycle, etc., etc.
So, yes, this all came about because of Marilyn Wentworth's death. It's really sad people have already forgotten what happened to her (and the man, interviewed in the 2017 report, who suffered a traumatic brain injury at the same intersection a few years earlier).
Washington + Belgrade are already two lane travel lane roads
By Parkwayne
Tue, 11/26/2019 - 10:07am
and guess what? It's fine.
Welcome aboard the road diet train. We'll let past kerfuffles be and move forward together, towards a safer neighborhood where cars generally go 25 mph or less.
As for Washington heading down the hill towards Dedham, yeah, that should have bus lanes.
Roslindale's Racetrack
By Dennis Cloherty
Mon, 11/25/2019 - 10:16pm
Roads determine the speed. That is why traffic calming works. Interestingly, the time of arrival is determined by the bottlenecks at the intersections. Thus being able to drive 40-50 MPH on the straightaways and where the nightlines permit doesn't get you there any sooner, you just spend more time in line trying to get through the lights and intersections. The old, "hurry up to wait truism", or as the Pennsylvania Dutch say, "the faster I go....."
Interesting article about
By anon
Wed, 11/27/2019 - 11:00am
Interesting article about Barcelona and what they are doing for a better quality of life and the reduction of cars.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barcelona-ban-cars-...
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