🚀 go-pugleaf

The problem with traffic on Somerville Ave is the closure of the
Beacon Street bridge over the railway tracks to inbound (Cambridge
bound) traffic.  Somerville Ave is the detour, with people heading for
Cambridge going down to Park St. and turning right.  The lights at
Park St. are not timed for this.  Park St. has a much longer green
duty cycle than Somerville Ave.  Also, parking is permitted almost up
to the corner, so cars turning right can't dump out onto Park St., and
as soon as a car arrives that ISN'T turning right, the right-turn on
red (permitted there, if I recall), is inoperative.

So they never clear Somerville Ave., at least not during rush hour.

I've called the Somerville cops on this.  They referred me to the
Traffic Department.  The Traffic Department told me they had the
problem well in hand, and not to bother them.

B______s!