State officials seek advice on bad parkway intersection

There is very, very little need for pedestrian crossing at this part of Centre St. There is a crosswalk with lights at the bottom of the hill by the Hebrew Rehab and top of the hill by the Faulkner. So where there would be pedestrians. The church and Sofia Snow generate no foot traffic.

Unaddressed is that there really needs to be a bike lane at from the end of Walter to the Faulkner crosswalk, but that's impossible w/o losing the sidewalk. Oh well.

Do you live by and use the Forest Hills area by car? With the overpass, there were almost never backups on 203 going east all the way back to the main entrance to the Arboretum. Your concept of patience doesn't allow for the fact that 30 years ago when I moved in, commuting through the Hill was reasonable if not a mess. Extending the commute time up Hyde Park in the morning by as much as 20 minutes from Walk Hill is not really convivial (Look that up in your kindergarten dictionary).

The reality is that the solution has to work for everyone. If the solution selected handles traffic in in efficient manner, then the impatience that leads to crazy driving would not build. In fact, your opining that equates calming with bottle-necking, indicates your total ignorance about human behavior, any understanding of flow dynamics and the reality of living in a city booming like Boston. Keeping traffic flowing in a reasonable way allows for time for pedestrians and bicyclists. Extending travel times by as much as 20 minutes through a 3/4 to 1 1/4 mile segment, only creates frustration and forces people to the side streets. Not to mention the extended idle times of traffic through the hills, all the additional pollution, an the increased rudeness of people driving and riding bicycles because they can't move through the area in a time that even approximates a sane commute.

So I suggest before you espouse more putrid opining, you examine the issues from all sides, understand the broader impact on all the people in the area, and realize the ignorant one sided attitude only promotes more problems and offers no solutions.

oh.. and by the way, I do NOT really thing traffic should go down Walter to South or Bussy to the Hill and around 203. But I DO LIVE IN WOODBOURNE and I have to put up with all the driving idiots who now zoom through our neighborhood because they CAN"T GET THROUGH THE HILLS in a reasonable amount of time. (and please spare me the next obfuscation about what is "reasonable".)

I think my snarky attempt at highlighting the difficulties the Casey Overpass approach has caused were lost and my concern that this project will be equally managed with false promises. I do NOT think traffic should be redirected to the neighborhood roads. I am thrilled that something may be done to this intersection - I go through it several times a day on occasion. I detest the way drivers rush to prevent drivers going south on the Arborway from turning onto Walter. I also detest that unbalanced way the Casey Overpass was handled giving priority to one group as if their needs outweighed the reality of other peoples lives. I also detest that so many promises about the impact of the Casey project were mis-information. So often rude drivers block cross access to other drivers... So often the people there to assure safety do nothing to enforce the "don't block the box" and it doesn't matter that traffic is backed up 1/2 mile at times and nothing is done to ease the traffic flow.

So I hope this clarified what my sarcasm was attempting to convey. I was really quite surprised by the sophomoric comments I evoked from some people. This was not my intent.

If rotaries work so well, why are they removing Shea Circle, and proposing to remove Murray Circle?