Description
There are multiple complaints about the very short cycle time for the turn from Beech to Mass Ave — and now it has reached a critical point. This is creating a dangerous, frustrating, and unnecesarily adding to a difficult situation. Red line shuttle buses are clogging the entire street and part of Elm St. before the Beech St turn. Only one single bus can make the turn at Mass Ave per cycle. The timing issue at this light is impacting commuters of all kinds, from the buses that will deliver already frazzled T riders late to Harvard Station, the people living in Beech who are not able to get out of their driveways, and pedestrians who have to dangerously navigate around buses at the Beech and Elm intersections when frustrated drivers who cannot see around the buses are ready to accelerate when they see a gap. What will it take for this timing issue to be corrected?
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6 Comments
City of Cambridge (Verified Official)
David Falanga (Registered User)
I wholeheartedly agree!!!
It was terrible when the adjustment was first made but now it is at a critical point! Beech Street is an extremely busy street! It may be short but it's very high traffic. The timing needs to go back to the way it was originally!
Traffic – JP (Street Mgmt) (Verified Official)
Acknowledged Traffic - SM (Engineering) (Verified Official)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
David Falanga (Registered User)
As I wrote in my earlier comment, this has been a problem ever since the timing was changed. This really needs to be restored to the orignal timing.