Reports (62)

None of the Commonwealth Mall crossings of the alphabet streets (Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, Hereford) have crosswalks or indicators when it's safe to cross. Inexplicably, all intersections follow different patterns for who has concurrent green lights -- sometimes Comm in one direction and the sidestreet at the other side are green concurrently (perhaps for turning traffic?), creating a situation where pedestrians think it's safe to cross and it isn't. What's the vision for how pedestrians are supposed to use this as a corridor? Cross to the outside of Comm Ave (where the pedestrian signals are) at every block? This does not seem feasible.

In the back bay area. The pedestrians signals should all go at the same time. There are many instances especially during rush hour that vehicles making turns... for example Berkeley and Boylston. The vehicles turning left onto Berkeley only one or two vehicle actually turn per cycle because of pedestrian crossing. Having the pedestrian signals all go at the same time would probably help alleviate some of that traffic in the back bay area. And other areas in the city ass well | Signal problem: [Pedestrian Signal]

I walk all over the Seaport District, primarily down Congress Street from Seaport West to downtown. The walk signs come on at intersections where cars have lights telling them they can turn left making it treacherous to cross. There are many intersections where this is true making it necessary for someone to take a walk through the area to see what I mean. Happy to get together with you and show you where some of the problems are -- give me a call at 617-607-5995. |

Green light and walk signal occurring simultaneously at corner of Berkeley and Boylston. Accident waiting to happen. People and cars go at the same time.

caller notes that about two years ago pedestrian crossing signals were altered to concur with the parallel traffic signals instead of keeping cars staionary while people crossed. Now there is a conflict w/ turning vehicles "at almost every intersection in the Back Bay" since drivers are too agressive to let pedestrians with the WALK signals cross legally and safety. Would like to see the signals returned to an "all stop" configuration |

Could you please make the walk signals to cross Mass Ave (at Beacon St) automatic at all times of the day. The signals are concurrent but seem to require you to press the button, at least some of the time, which is very confusing and inconvenient. I observed people try to cross at 8:15 pm and they seemed confused as to why they didn't have a walk signal even though Beacon St had a green light. Thank you.

The traffic signal at Washington St/Lagrange St/Beach St needs to have some protected/concurrent walk phases added. The walk signals to cross Lagrange St and Beach St rest in "walk" when Washington St has a green light. However, when Lagrange St or Beach St has a green light, most of the signals say "don't walk" when there is no vehicle conflict and they should say "walk". Can you please add/change the following? 1. When Lagrange St has a green light, the southern crosswalk to cross Washington St should say "walk" and the crosswalk to cross Beach St should say "walk". 2. When Beach St has a green light, both crosswalks to cross Washington St should say "walk" and the crosswalk to cross Lagrange St should say "walk". Thank you.

Two issues with the ped signals to cross Lagrange St and Beach St. (1) During the exclusive walk phase, the walk signals do not come on. (2) During the concurrent walk phase (when Washington St has a green), the walk signals end too early.

Can you please make all the walk signals at Northern Ave and D St/Fish Pier concurrent? The wait to cross any of the crossings currently is quite long. Thank you. | Case (SR) Type: [Aircraft Noise/Massport] Referred To: [MASSPORT]

My fiancée and I are pleased that Commonwealth Ave and its intersection with Chestnut Hill Ave will be repaved, repainted and receive new street lights. However, we feel it would be a truly lost opportunity not to re tune the pedestrian signals. Since we do not own a car, something common in our neighborhood, we pass through this intersection on foot very often on our way to Cleveland Circle, or the two other branches of the Green Line (the C and D lines) in the area. Having lived in the neighborhood for several years now, we could recite the signal sequence in our sleep. Unfortunately this does not stop not only ourselves from having close calls in the intersection but particularly people who are not familiar with the intersection. As it stands now, if someone were to cross diagonally across the intersection (say, from the south-east side to the north-west side) ONLY when the pedestrian signals shows WALK, we feel it would take that person somewhere in the time frame of 3 to 4 minutes. All this just to cross an intersection! To say this intersection is auto-mobile centric and hostile to area residents on foot is an understatement. We feel that one of the best ways to remedy this would be to enable concurrent pedestrian signalization. In other words, for example, when the signal is green for traffic heading north and south on Chestnut Hill Ave, the pedestrian signals going north/south should display a walk sign. Also, drivers turning right off of Chestnut Hill to go east on Commonwealth, for example, would have to yield to pedestrians before making their turn, something they rarely do at this time because they think they have the right of way due to the DO NOT WALK signal that is almost always there. This could have helped me avoid a particularly irate young woman who was honking and flailing her arms at me and mouthing "Get out of the road!" while she was attempting to make a similar right turn. Not surprisingly, she believed she had complete right of way as it was not explicitly stated otherwise anywhere else. I certainly wasn’t going to wait another 90 seconds for the only time that particular WALK signal lights, which is when the left turn arrows for turning off of Commonwealth go green. Even then, that particular walk signal rarely changes. It is frustrating at minimum. In countless other cities across the world, concurrent pedestrian signalization would have been implemented at this intersection to better accommodate, inform and protect pedestrians all while not impacting traffic flow in any meaningful way. I would be more than happy to speak further about this to give you more information. Thank you! (this is showing without lines between paragraphs!) |