Originally Posted by
apricissimus
I normally would be very irritated by people consistently blocking the intersection like this, but I think this intersection is sort of an exception. The light for the cross traffic is pretty far from where the blockage actually occurs, and it would be pretty hard to judge whether it is safe to proceed without blocking Comm Ave. I can give the motorists a pass one this one. I think the real problem is too many people getting onto Storrow Drive all at once, and poor traffic design.
It's more the people getting
off Storrow and/or getting onto the BU bridge, less the ones getting onto Storrow. But yeah, it's an exceptionally messed up intersection -- in fact, it isn't really an intersection, it's actually two busy four-way intersections placed quite close together. The big problem is the people who are northbound on intersection 1 who need to (technically) take a left and then a right to go northbound at intersection 2 -- the backup from intersection 2 frequently leaves them stopped at a point where they've got a couple lanes still to cross over, so they're at angles, and if you're through traffic on that stupid bike lane...well, you can't be. There's literally no way through except to weave around the cars. Going the other way (the original complaint) is the one part of the whole shebang where I think the bike lane actually does help a little.