If a pedestrian crosses against the light, should you swerve around him? Not in Massachusetts, according to a recent decision of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Slam on the brakes or else. The judges ruled that neither a green light nor a don’t walk signal means anything; the driver is always wrong. Technically pedestrians aren’t supposed […]
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Visions of speed traps
Boston city councilors unanimously approved a request to allow police to ticket anybody who drives a car on a city street. Formally it’s a request to lower the speed limit to 20 everywhere, except where the city reduces it further. This requires legislative approval. The legislature previously gave Boston permission to post 20 mph speed […]
Pulling strings
Two recent articles from Massachusetts show the dominance of federal money in local transportation planning. A town wants to repair an old bridge. State officials want their friends to get rich off railroad construction. Both are local projects. The bridge is on a small street; the railroad would carry commuter traffic a few miles. Both […]
How high can you count?
The biggest fear of MassDOT is not that drivers are going to revolt over low speed limits, or the Big Dig’s next victim, or the fines toll collecting robots will start handing out at random next year. MassDOT is afraid somebody will discover the plan to comply with national standards by using mile-based exit numbers. […]
One city’s traffic speed data
One job of a municipal transportation department is answering “speeding” complaints. Some cities respond by collecting speed data to see if the complaint is really about speed or about unwanted traffic. Often the response doesn’t see the light of day, but Cambridge, Massachusetts has released 28 years of data collected in response to such complaints. […]
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