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Evening crawl hour well under way
By adamg on Fri, 02/06/2015 - 5:39pm
KWAPT shows us the non-moving bus traffic on Washington Street in Brighton, where a bus and a cab may have tried to occupy the same space at the same time. Traffic elsewhere is marginally better, except possibly in Kenmore Square, where the stop lights have taken the night off.
Atlantic Avenue by Summer is also a morass of non-movingness, as Cybah noticed out his office window:
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Not a cab but a National Grid
Not a cab but a National Grid truck. It cleared out about an hour ago. I took a picture. Parked cars got scratched up as did the bus, which was one of the new ones by the way.
http://i.imgur.com/w8P9ZeW.jpg
The car on the right was parked in that snowbank. People were looking all over for the owners because nothing could be done until that car specifically was moved. Bunch of old folks were screaming Irish at them to get them to move when they showed up.
Suggestion to the Keystone Kops
(or would that be Barney Fife and friends) who responded to this. Need a vehicle moved in a hurry. There's a solution for that - it's called a TOW TRUCK.
There wasn't a whole lot of
There wasn't a whole lot of time for anything to get there to help. Police showed up after it was cleared. It was a mess getting anywhere.
not "one of the new busses"
That's an 04-05 diesel Neoplan AN440LF.
The new hybrid busses look different in about a dozen+ ways ranging from non-sealed headlight beams to a curved roof, and are made by NFI. They're barely entering service now.
wait until Brighton....
is dealing with traffic from all the development on guest st/new balance way. Washington St., Market, North Beacon , Murdock st. cut through,Cambridge st and Union square are going to be a disaster of traffic. SCREWED! a goddamned trafficlopolypse
the problem is not development
the problem is not development.
The problem is with lack of reliable mass transit and dedicated, isolated bike lanes.
European cities have figured this out a long time ago and solved the problem.
Some cities in the USA are catching up. Madison, WI, Portland, Oregon are already successfully doing it.
Maybe it needs to get worse before it gets better. Time for Boston.
This.
So many people seem to think that the solution to traffic and high housing costs is "If we don't build it, they won't come and the people who are already here will go away." But people will come no matter what, which is why smart urban planning is key.