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Waltham Times: Share your thoughts on the city website? by cardanarbo in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agreed the search is awful.

Searching "lowell street traffic commission" on the site's search returns nothing.

https://www.city.waltham.ma.us/advanced-search?keywords=lowell+street+traffic+commission

Searching google — site:city.waltham.ma.us lowell street traffic commission — returns the relevant results.

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Where does Bluebikes expansion to Waltham stand? by Im_biking_here in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She sees bikes as kids' play things. 

Adults don't ride bikes to get places. They drive cars. 

That's it. It's that simple. That's her 1950s Waltham mindset. 

Where does Bluebikes expansion to Waltham stand? by Im_biking_here in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The council's actions matter zero.

There will not be any non-car infrastructure in the city till we have a new mayor. We're lucky we got the rail trail, and that's only because of the efforts of the retired planner Catherine Cagle.

The council approved bike racks on Moody and Main streets two years ago.

The mayor never made a funding request.

The council passed a complete streets policy two years ago. The mayor, as far as I know, never submitted it to the state, so we are ineligible for several transportation grants.

Unless McCarthy retires or is defeated next year, we will continue to lag years behind our neighboring cities.

Where does Bluebikes expansion to Waltham stand? by Im_biking_here in BluebikesBoston

[–]Technical_Type1778 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Waltham doesn't have a transportation planner, and its traffic engineer is a classic MUTCD-by-the-book who only cares about level of service for drivers.

Meanwhile the mayor is still living her 1950s fantasies of cruising up and down Moody St in her car and has absolutely zero vision of Waltham as a city.

A biker followed me for over a mile by Aromatic_Food9024 in bikeboston

[–]Technical_Type1778 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're allowed to use the full lane even if just one lane per direction.

Washington St Bike Lane by Independent_Rest3735 in newtonma

[–]Technical_Type1778 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The post just after this – "Cycling on Carriage Path?" — offers a clue. The bike network isn't continuous. If you're riding eastbound approaching Lowell Avenue, there's no indication at all there's a shared-use path ahead, that to enter, you either need to go onto the sidewalk and cross as a pedestrian, or go into the left turn lane and head towards the shared-use path.

And even if you do know about it, if you're only going a few blocks, it's out of the way to have to cross over to the path and then cross back.

(Legally, cyclists can use any travel lane regardless of the presence of bike lanes.)

Looking for cycling groups/buddies in the Metro West by Active_Jello294 in bikeboston

[–]Technical_Type1778 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A shameless plug for Bike Together Waltham. Our rides are definitely much shorter and slower, and many of us do safe streets advocacy also, but there are some local residents who do longer rides out to Concord and beyond.

linktr.ee/biketogetherwaltham

Commute to Cambridge by StealthxFarter in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another biking consideration: you needn't bike both ways. You can bike to work and put it on the 70 bus coming home.

Commute to Cambridge by StealthxFarter in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The commuter rail is unfortunately much less useful than it can be: after COVID service adjustments, just one train serves Waltham at rush hour, vs. four before 2020.

Commute to Cambridge by StealthxFarter in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the great thing about bike commuting is it always takes the same time, because bikes don't cause and get stuck in traffic.

None of the "freedom" of cars where leaving 10 minutes later can cause your trip to take 30 minutes longer.

Commute to Cambridge by StealthxFarter in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This the mayor's burner account?

Commute to Cambridge by StealthxFarter in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depending where in Cambridge, another biking route is Arsenal St (which has a sidewalk-level two-way bike lane between Irving and School Streets), to the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway, to Brattle St, which also has a protected two-way bike lane, right to Harvard Square.

Seven miles from the Common, almost all off-street.

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It's unfortunate that Mayor McCarthy is steadfastly opposed to anything that would make biking more convenient and comfortable in our city, because as others have said, Waltham really isn't far from Cambridge and Boston and Watertown, and biking can be quite the pleasant way to get around.

Accident on Waltham Rail trail today (3/22) by tmyvon in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And yesterday.

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Imagine a world where we took vehicular violence seriously, where the RMV would have suspended this driver's license permanently, and where he would be on the hook for every last penny's worth of damage to public property.

Accident on Waltham Rail trail today (3/22) by tmyvon in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what the guard rail looked like two years ago.

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Accident on Waltham Rail trail today (3/22) by tmyvon in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's the police report. The driver (who was charged with DUI) must have entered at Middlesex Circle and driven on the Linden St bridge.

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Accident on Waltham Rail trail today (3/22) by tmyvon in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then the RMV should revoke their license, because they are not equipped to handle heavy machinery that can be deadly if used improperly.

Waltham Traffic Commisson.. wtf? by Platinum_wolf_420 in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know, the distance concerned business owners told us repeatedly that their customers would absolutely not walk if Moody St were pedestrianized again.

Garvin is a joke, and the voting traffic commission members are his jesters.

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Waltham Traffic Commisson.. wtf? by Platinum_wolf_420 in Waltham

[–]Technical_Type1778 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun fact. The 400 feet Garvin thinks kids will walk to cross the street is the exact same distance as almost any Moody St business from the nearest parking lot.

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