portnoyslp

portnoyslp t1_iy95h3d wrote

I think with Garden St. the problem is largely from the Harvard students coming from the Radcliffe Quad. They're finding it easier in the mornings to go contra-flow on the outbound lane than cross the street at Shepard and back again at Concord. I feel like it's improved since the initial creation, so perhaps it will improve still more over time.

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portnoyslp t1_iuesra0 wrote

Sometimes people feel it's safer to ride the wrong way in the bike lane than to cross a busy street to the opposite side. I've seen that a fair amount from the BlueBike corral on Garden St; the Harvard students feel it's easier to hop onto outbound bike lane to get them inbound towards Cambridge Common (rather than cross Garden, bike down two blocks, and then cross again towards the Common).

We'll see if that changes now after the new traffic routing in that section, which should include a safer story for cyclists heading towards the Common from SE-bound Garden.

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