DCR will be widening the sidewalks/path here. The biggest change will be moving the street-level bike lane onto a wider shared-use path. The speed limit in this area will also be lowered to 25 mph. Just putting this note here to flag it as the work is estimated to be completed by late November.

Link to plans:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/dcr-memorial-dr-construction-plan-october-2024/download

Link to traffic notice from the DCR:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/dcr-traffic-advisory-safety-improvements-for-the-bu-bridge-corridor-of-memorial-drive-in-cambridge/download

Link to news article:
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/10/04/state-officials-say-work-to-improve-safety-at-lethal-memorial-drive-crash-site-will-begin-on-monday

Hi all,

I have added conditional restrictions here based on street side. But, street side also suggests exceptions which I'm not aware of how to tag. If you have sufficient knowledge please go ahead and tag it accordingly or please let me know, I will map it.

Thanks,
rekulc.

These railways need to be removed. They don't exist anymore.

Considering Brighton was once a town and still maintains a distinct identity, many of its roads should be upgraded to secondary

Wouldn't it be cleaner to have all of the traffic signal nodes consolidated to a single node in the middle of this intersection? This seems overly complex as it is.

Unable to answer "How wide is the bicycle path here?" – Cycle Path – way/1196986917 via StreetComplete 58.0:

This is not a separated bike path. Bike path is on the street side of the curb, separated with flex-posts, but up on the curb is just concrete sidewalk for pedestrians

In context of overlay "Surfaces" – Cycle Path – way/1281288073 via StreetComplete 57.4:

This is just a mixed bus/bike lane which obviously has the same asphalt paving as the main road.

"cycleway{" here on Mount Auburn Street is actually an on-street buffered bike lane, and mapping it as a cycleway 1. misrepresents it as an offstreet path, and includes no information on what sort of bike lane it is (that it's buffered and asphalt and decently smooth) 2. makes bike routing worse: bike routing tools now will show turn cues that aren't meaningful, and onto ways like this that do not have names, so it will just say "turn slight right". This isn't useful

These sorts of ways are found in a number of places across boston, and really aren't great for data quality of the map or for people using the map as a navigational tool for bikes. As someone who does a lot of bike route planning, I've been increasingly frustrated by the quality of the map in the boston area in this regard

Unable to answer "What surface does this square have?" – Pedestrian Area – way/1285818938 via StreetComplete 58.2:

Not a pedestrian area, median with plants

the turn around lane has been replaced with a sculpture park.