Rich Carlson presents information about numerous (and often conflicting) studies of the effectiveness of red-light cameras to increase traffic safety, and concerns about the information disseminated by companies that provide the camera systems.
Transportation
accessibility, bike paths, masspike, mbta, ride sharing, rmv, roads and traffic, rules of the road, statewide transportation funding
The 73 bus
A constituent of Will’s shares a letter she sent to the MBTA about service issues on the 73 bus line.
Bowker Overpass Construction Work to Begin
A traffic advisory from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about detours involving the Bowker Overpass connecting Storrow Drive to the Fenway area.
Cambridge Street Improvements
Advocates are concerned that the entire corridor is not being rebuilt under current discussions of the reconstruction of the Allston/Brighton Mass. Pike interchange, leaving the section from Union Square to Harvard Avenue untouched and the intersection with Soldiers Field Road and the River Street Bridge on DCR property in their current dangerous condition.
Access to the Ride — a complaint
Dr. Klemens Meyer writes about difficulties one of his patients has experienced with the MBTA’s The Ride program.
Bike Safety on the Fiedler Bridge
I’m concerned about safety on the Fiedler Footbridge–the command to WALK BIKES should be painted in big fluorescent letters on the concrete wall at each end, and on the walkway itself.