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She said in each case it’s a balancing act between moving cars more smoothly and keeping the streets safe.ĭrivers say the gridlock is sometimes so bad that even when lights are green, they’re stopped. “There’s locations where signal coordination along a corridor could make a huge difference,” said Sarah Lee, assistant director of transportation at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. On a five-year basis, they review each of the 593 intersections that have traffic lights in the city monitoring system, tweaking about 60 per year.īut a state agency traffic expert told the Herald there is more that could be done to improve traffic flow. In the Boston Traffic Management Center in City Hall, traffic officials monitor 228 traffic cameras aimed at intersections, making on-the-spot timing changes every day.
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“I think it would certainly help,” Fiandaca said, adding the city could install adaptive lights in other areas. These computer-controlled lights interact and change their cycles to adjust to traffic in real time. She said the city and state are about to put in “adaptive” traffic signals in the Seaport. Ave are rated among the worst by Boston’s traffic engineers, falling between “high” and “very high,” the city’s top classification for congestion. Stretches of road on both sides of the Greenway, roads around TD Garden, Congress Street and Mass.
Complaints of heavy congestion in several of those areas are borne out by the city’s own data.
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Boylston Street is often well synced, but a few blocks over, drivers on Commonwealth Avenue have to stop constantly. In numerous Herald interviews with cabbies and ride-share drivers, the same thoroughfares kept coming up: Surface Road along the Greenway, intersections around Causeway Street, the Longwood medical area, downtown, and the entire length of Massachusetts Avenue.
No one’s going anywhere,” Uber driver Felipe Rios told the Herald last week, voicing a common gripe about constant stops and starts that he and other drivers see as unnecessary. “You have three lights in 50 yards, and the middle one will be green and the other two won’t. Boston drivers are seeing red over out-of-sync traffic lights they say force frequent braking and create gridlock, problems City Hall says it hopes to reduce with new technology, though transportation officials say they’d rather get people out of cars and into public transit or on bikes.