Which is fine. You know why I have cars? So I can wrench on them and take them on fun drives/ errands that are more convenient by car. I have one car I probably won’t drive until April and another that I use maybe 1 or 2x a week. Work from home is a godsend

I actually saw someone stop and put the car in reverse to get back to the turn they missed.

Could you just drive around and around and around a rotary for hours if you wanted? Or is there some kind rule that says no? Lol

December 30th

The rotary behind Wonderland station in Revere worked great for many years. Then they added a light at the station. And forevermore it's a clusterfuck to get through during rush hour. I've literally spent 15+ minutes trying to get through that rotary, multiple times.

I'm glad I don't live there anymore...

1997 Ford Taurus

Porsche Cayenne

July 4th

Yield and stop are not the same thing.

No offense, but a lot of people have driving anxiety because they are scared of people doing what you just described, and then they panic and also do what you just described.

I saw it before they even started public service on that line… was figuring maybe they’d fix it before it opened but I suppose not

Exactly. This is how it's supposed to work when there is a safety issue. Sometimes defects will happen. Comments in other threads here about this issue and other MBTA topics have me convinced there are paid shills / car obsessed maniacs that can't help but spread nonsense about mass transit. The MBTA is overall really good (For the US). There are issues, just as there are issues everywhere. They caught this, and are fixing it. We should be glad.

How many times have new cars been pulled?

Fun fact, the Richard Dreyfus movie “Once Around” has a plot device that involves driving around a rotary over and over and over again. Said rotary is one of the route 16 rotaries in Medford.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Around

Fun fact, the route 16/route 2 lights right before those two rotaries ALSO used to be a rotary.

They don't feel they can affect change, and it's hard to place blame without running into real political, policy and optics issues (which currently lead to your being called names and screamed at) so it somehow becomes the fault of people a thousand miles away.

la paloma in quincy?

The stop at an on ramp yield is not just stupid, it’s dangerous.

The on ramp is there to give you enough time to get your speed consistent with the current highway traffic. That way, you can smoothly merge and drivers on the highway don’t have to do anything. If I am on an on-ramp, this is what I and the other cars behind me are doing - matching our travel speed to the highway speed - if you are the car in front of that line and you STOP at the yield, someone is going to rear end you and it’s not going to be pretty.

The "weekend warrior". A car that its owners don't really need because they work from home and only drive it once a month to visit friends or do the occasional Costco run. As residential parking is so heavily subsidised in Boston they don't care their car is mostly a space saver.

lol, I don’t think that’s what they said. As an objective fact, legally a person crossing the street outside a crosswalk or against a light is doing so unlawfully. That in no way implies that a driver should not yield in that circumstance, and in practice cars defer to them anyway. That doesn’t mean someone should just walk into the middle of the street whenever they feel like it.

That being said, if an accident ever occurred and there was a lawsuit, the pedestrian can collect damages if they are found by a jury to be any number less than 50% responsible.

So many radians though

No, it's consistently been like this all week. Unless I've been taking the same green line train and car all week, which maybe?

Sorry a sign told me to show courtesy to side street traffic, excuse me while I slam on my brakes with a line of cars behind me

I hope not, it was most probably a glitch in the display, hopefully.

That rotary was built by Satan himself.