Thanks Geoff, that was a well crafted, thoughtful and thorough piece. That took a lot of time and dedication. Hopefully, it will do some good.
@SkylerKehren
9 жыл бұрын
Yikes! that's terrifying compared to Helsinki. Here we often have bike specific crossing signals mounted at bike level. Also, fantastic editing and narration!
@geoffcadams
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comments and views! Passing along some positive info about planned underpasses from the Charles River Concervancy: www.thecharles.org/advocacy-center/bridge-underpasses/
@jsallen1946
9 жыл бұрын
Yes, these problems have existed since the path was extended around 1980 and I have photos showing that. See photo albums about the path here: About the River Street bridge: bikexprt.com/massfacil/boston/rvstwsta.htm Western Avenue, N. Beacon Street: john-s-allen.com/galleries/pdwsouth/index.html
@geoffcadams
9 жыл бұрын
They really should do something at Cambridge/River Street temporarily that blocks that crosswalk and forces bike & ped traffic over the bridge to the Memorial Drive side where there's a signal with a crosswalk phase. Temporary barriers of some kind - until they fix it FOR REAL.
@markdisanzo3796
9 жыл бұрын
The Soldiers' Field Rd/Cambridge St intersection is the absolute worst. There IS a crosswalk there, but no sign for motorists to know that. In most cases I am 100% against traffic lights, but there needs to be at least a yellow crossing light there. The City of Cambridge has the right idea in Kendall Square: There's a crossing light that flashes yellow only as long as someone is crossing. Something like that would be great. It's not realistic to think about completely stopping traffic, nor would I want to. But that intersection is suicidal for pedestrians.
@TrikeSquadron
Жыл бұрын
wow... those are horribly unsafe crossings! Excellent presentation of the problems! I hope you sent this to your local city to do something about this. Looks like there are also a lot of cyclists using the crossings!
@StuartGray
9 жыл бұрын
We should make sure that no matter how stupid a person is they can safely travel. If we do enough maybe someday you can feel safe.
@jsallen1946
9 жыл бұрын
I prepared a video about the River Street Bridge for Charles River Conservancy, mostly from Lynn Weissman's footage. The Conservancy is very interested in the issue of making the path crossings safer. The video is described and linked here: streetsmarts.bostonbiker.org/2012/03/03/276/
@dedjohnso
6 жыл бұрын
Now that DCR has fixed the Cambridge Street crossing you'll have to make a new video! :)
@geoffcadams
6 жыл бұрын
Yup, I had seen that they were working on it. About time!
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