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Veggie sausage when I was wasted was just incredible. Miss both of those things

The pulled pork sandwiches!

Yes. I lived there after moving from western ny. The intersections are the strangest ever. Kelley square before they redid it was a free for all.

Poorly-designed rotaries encourage terrible driving habits. Specifically, rotaries that require you to drive into the path of oncoming traffic--not "merge" but literally drive directly into traffic. It lowers people's inhibitions for making incredibly stupid, dangerous maneuvers everywhere else.

Other states may have terrible roads, but this particular insanity belongs mainly to Central and Eastern Mass.

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The last statement you made is what I meant. Modernization isn't a great term but I really didn't want to come out the gate being overly aggressive. The bottom line is this - there are people on the city council who will not do something if it benefits working class to poor people in this city. Especially, if they aren't white.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorcesterMA/comments/120u2z8/why_worcester_drivers_are_so_awful_your_theories/jdjr41w?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

If you're interested, there's a Worcester urbanism meet-up. Makes the streets walkable, bikable, busable!

Yeah. We've heard that the city council is powerless, overworked and apathetic.

As an aside, I'm pushing back against your use of "modernization." I don't think that tearing down homes to build roads is 'progress'.

But maybe you're using "modern" in the sense of 1950s-ish aesthetic/mindset.

With every rotary I glide through while neither I nor any other driver in the vicinity uses a turn signal, my heart gets a little bit colder

Jed's Hardware in Holden, just a couple minutes outside Worcester, Weber dealer with a good selection.

Seeing bikes on the roads in this city makes me anxious driving around. I wish there were bike lanes instead of off street parking everywhere. I feel like that isn't going to happen with all of those new parking meters that have been installed all over the place, though.

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Klems in Spencer has a selection last I was there. Also whitco in Spencer or sclamos usually have some.

Worcester streets set us up for failure.

The make up of the city council is going to be a roadblock to your ideas. Your best bet is to find candidates to challenge and replace the city councilors that will stop modernization of this city.

Sclamos

Source for this info?

The two things I miss most about living in CT are that they know how to do garbage pick-up and they know how to drive.

Enforcement should really be a last resort. By the time you're relying on it, you're basically already conceding that your city's infrastructure is a failure.

Honestly, in a lot of places we could get by with narrower streets, which have an effect of reducing overall traffic speeds. Like, does Pleasant St need to be nearly wide enough for 4 lanes when it's got a 30mph speed limit at most? Does Mill St need to be the 4-lane-with-median monstrosity for most of its length? People driving faster is going to lead to more reckless behavior at intersections.

For particularly complicated intersections, we could see improvement with traffic circles. I'm thinking the Main/Major Taylor/Highland/Belmont/Grove mess (yes I know it used to be a traffic circle, maybe that wasn't wrong?), the Main/Mill/Webster intersection, or the weird triangle intersection with Lincoln and Burncoat would be helped by this.

The thing is it’s not just people plowing through there. It’s the people that stop for the stop sign when they have a yield. It’s disorienting going into the rotary not knowing if people are going to be too bold or too timid

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On my way home from Trader Joe's today I saw a dude in a black Camry with no rear license plate. No temporary paper tag either. No plate. We both drove by the police station side by side. It's mad max out here

The Newton Square rotary is a consistent rage generator and I often wish I had rocket launchers mounted on my car to obliterate the assholes that plow through there.

It's around 400 now and was then too.

"Here we are, inside your body, and that noisy, empty space is your stomach getting angry cause there's no food in the place!"