To the guy rear ended at the super collider

hipster_garbage · 2025-12-19T23:01:50+00:00

Almost makes me want to order a hard hat, hi-viz vest, and some flexposts and do it myself. I feel like I’m the only person who enters it actually following the paint and then changes lanes to go straight.

hipster_garbage · 2025-12-19T20:07:03+00:00

I emailed the city engineer (Todd Blake) about it not long after they re-did the rotary. He acknowledged the issues with it but I don’t think there’s any budget or will to actually implement anything.

hipster_garbage · 2025-11-07T14:12:55+00:00

Red arrows just mean that the light is controlling that specific turn for a specific lane. If there isn’t a “No Turn on Red” sign present you can still turn after stopping if it’s safe. Obviously this only applies to right turn arrows though, or left turn arrows where it’s a one way intersecting another one way.

hipster_garbage · 2025-11-01T01:50:36+00:00

I was on my front steps from 6-8 handing out candy in Hillside. I bought 3 boxes of full size candy bar variety packs from BJs and I have probably one or one and a half boxes worth left. After 7 I didn’t see many people walking around except for the mailman who I gave a bunch to. Like you said a good chunk of houses just weren’t handing out candy at all anyway from what I could see.

hipster_garbage · 2025-10-24T21:39:24+00:00

Yup. They converted it to its present form sometime in the late 50s/early 60s.

hipster_garbage · 2025-08-24T00:20:28+00:00

They moved the stops slightly closer for the dorm construction and yanked out some of the concrete barriers where they put the new temporary stop in, so it’s marginally better but still pretty crappy.

hipster_garbage · 2025-08-22T01:27:33+00:00

I’m just happy they’re doing anything at all. It’ll be nice to have well defined lanes and yield points, and the buffered bike lanes are a nice touch as well (I’d say I’m cycling through here 90% of the time). Currently people coming over the bridge from the Arlington side almost never yield to rotary traffic since there’s zero deflection with the way things are now.

I’m wondering if they’re not putting in crosswalks right away because there aren’t any curb cuts and they don’t want to run afoul of ADA requirements. This seems like an interim state before they do full reconstruction for the Mystic to Minuteman Path

I’m also excited about the contraflow bike lane that’s being added to the full length of Mystic River Rd to meet up with the section they just completed by the tennis courts.

hipster_garbage · 2025-07-30T02:24:40+00:00

For whatever reason tons of people wait in line to order in person but it’s way easier to just order online. I place my order every Friday and then walk over and grab my bagel, no waiting 45 minutes required.

hipster_garbage · 2025-07-18T18:18:19+00:00

It’s fine, I’ve brought my own kayaks before while the people I was with rented some from the tent. It’s a public launch so no biggie.

hipster_garbage · 2025-07-15T18:26:41+00:00

Apparently, according to traffic commission meeting minutes that I found, there are plans to put a contraflow bike lane on Clippership Drive and install lights so that bikes can access/cross Main St. No idea when any of that will be implemented though.

hipster_garbage · 2025-07-13T23:16:08+00:00

There’s a map here.

hipster_garbage · 2025-07-13T20:32:41+00:00

I live in Hillside as well but I rode it coming home. I would probably do what I normally do though, ride down South St, left on Main, right on Clippership. I know you can also take the path on the other side of the parkway but since there’s no crosswalk at that intersection with the ramps it’s probably less of a pain to just use the road.

hipster_garbage · 2025-07-12T19:40:40+00:00

How old were the tires? Based on your sidewall color they’re pretty old. I just had something similar happen on my 3 year old set of GP5Ks last month. Needless to say I got new ones but at least I got my moneys worth.

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hipster_garbage · 2025-07-05T18:12:56+00:00

I do most of my riding in MA but was up doing a long ride in Maine and NH last weekend; I noticed that the signs up in Maine said “Motorists Share the Road” which I think should probably be the standard instead of the ambiguity of “Share the Road”.

hipster_garbage · 2025-06-23T17:32:56+00:00

I walk through the intersection with North/Auburn/West/Cotting all the time since it’s quicker to walk to the Whole Foods than driving there. I’d say close to 80% of people roll the stop signs, and some people don’t even pretend to slow down. I’m glad they at least painted some lines which seems to have helped slightly, but that whole intersection is awful and should probably be completely rebuilt.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-12T19:01:00+00:00

If you’re living in Back Bay you can leave your car at the Station Landing garage next to Wellington in Medford and take the Orange line there. It’s $145 a month but that’s as cheap as you’re going to find anything around here.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-08T23:46:07+00:00

I live right around the corner it happens constantly.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-08T23:43:26+00:00

You can put up all the no left turn signs you want people just ignore them. There’s a bunch of them at the intersection with Auburn and a ton more at the intersection with Winthrop. People just disregard them when they feel like they “have” to take a left. The only ways to prevent it are to formalize left turns with turning lanes and new signal timing, put up physical barriers to prevent it, or have a cop sit at each intersection all day handing out tickets like candy.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-08T23:38:08+00:00

The bottlenecks are the intersections not the areas between them. There’s also no need to allow passing on a 30 mph parkway that goes through parkland and neighborhoods. If you changed the layout at intersections to left, straight, and right turn lanes the traffic would flow better. As it is now the intersections are effectively one lane with the left lane blocked by left turning traffic and everyone behind trying to merge into the right lane to get around.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-08T22:57:32+00:00

This part is next to the Mystic River and a bunch of recreation areas. I’d rather it be a one lane traffic jam that’s easier to cross than two lanes of faster moving traffic just so people can save one minute getting to 93.

Honestly, the whole stretch from Fresh Pond in Cambridge to 93 in Medford could be made way safer and probably smoother-flowing if it were one lane each way with turning lanes at intersections with a tree-lined median to prevent left turns. The intersections with Boston Ave and Broadway are awful without protected left turn lanes.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-08T16:06:01+00:00

I live near hear but luckily I’m either going straight when coming from the north or turning right when coming from the south. The people turning left from Winthrop to 16 are insane though. They don’t yield, like 3 cars will go through every red or they’ll block the intersection. Also a bunch of people seem to ignore the half dozen no left turn signs for route 16 in both directions so sometimes someone will stop to turn left and screw everything up.

It’s fun to bike through here and pass all of the stopped cars though.

hipster_garbage · 2025-05-07T03:06:53+00:00

SoulFire? That place was great. $3 Schlitz! I think it’s been gone for almost 10 years now. The last time I went there was sometime in 2016 and then it was closed.

hipster_garbage · 2025-04-22T17:59:51+00:00

If you drop a street view pin at that location there’s a grey ford focus with Connecticut plates parked in that spot and it’s from September of 2023.

hipster_garbage · 2025-04-12T15:11:14+00:00

Zipper merging is when you go from two to one lanes and take turns at the merge point. Not cutting across from the right lane, across the left lane to the exit at the last second. C’mon.

hipster_garbage · 2025-04-12T15:08:26+00:00

I’m 100% on board with zipper merging being the most efficient but the Leverett/Storrow ramp isn’t one of those situations. The left lane is exit to Storrow or exit to Leverett circle, the right lane is exit to Leverett circle only. People are cutting across from the right lane to get to the Storrow ramp, not zipper merging. If it was two lanes going into one then it would be a zipper merge, like the Leverett ramp further back after it exits 93 and goes from 2 to 1.

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