Cambridge Highlands Neighborhood Association

Peak hour restriction signs are up

Just a little note to let everyone know that the peak hour restriction signs have been put in place. There is one sign disallowing left hand turns from 7:30-9:30am weekdays onto South Normandy from Blanchard Road. The second sign is posted at Griswold Street and Sunset Road, restricting left turns onto Sunset from 4-6pm weekdays. These restrictions must apply to all vehicles, including residents.

For more information about this please view this post:

Griswold/Sunset & Traffic Calming Update

Griswold/Sunset & Traffic Calming Update

Last week we received a letter updating us on the status of the Griswold-Sunset intersection as well as the traffic calming ideas for the neighborhood. As Juan stated during his last meeting with us on Oct. 23, 2007, the proposed intersection changes would not be performed. The are going to put peak hour restriction signs disallowing left hand turns from 7:30-9:30am weekdays onto South Normandy from Blanchard Road. Also there will be a peak hour restriction posted at Griswold Street and Sunset Road, restricting left turns onto Sunset from 4-6pm weekdays. These restrictions must apply to all vehicles, including residents. These restricted access signs should be in place shortly.

 You can read the entire noticed sent out by Juan in PDF format below here:

sunset-griswold-update-2008-01-22.pdf

Griswold-Sunset Meeting Outcome

Hello Everyone,

Sorry it has taken so long to post a reply about the outcome of our meeting from Tuesday, Oct 23rd but here is a quick summary of what was discussed. The current marking on the pavement our out. Everyone in the neighborhood agreed that would not work out and he's going back to the drawing board. Also after the meeting he's going to check into the following:

• Speed table(s) Hopefully we can get at least one in the neighborhood. Everyone that attending our meeting on Friday, Oct 19th agreed this would be a good solution for slowing down speed. Juan needs to check with several other departments to see if this is a viable option or not.
• No left turn onto S. Normandy during morning rush hours.
• Another option for the Griswold-Sunset intersection that’ll include a stop sign and turn it into a definite intersection. There is no chance for a 3 way stop at that intersection as Griswold just continues through.
• Check into the possibility of adding a left hand turn signal for Griswold to turn onto Concord.
• Relocation of the Dead End signs closer to Concord and making them more visible.
• Replacing the existing children at play sign and adding more.

Juan also touched based on all of our suggestions from the letter Matt wrote up. He did say that a 3 way stop was out and that the city does not use speed bumps.

Matt and myself will be following up with Juan shortly to get a status update on what information, ideas and/or proposals he has come up with.

Eric

Our letter to Juan in ref. to Griswold-Sunset

Hello,

 It took a bit longer than intially thought to get it out to the list but here is the message we are sending to Juan.

Please note the file is in PDF format and you will need a PDF viewer to read it.

Letter to Juan about Griswold-Sunset Intersection

Last Night’s Meeting

First I would like to thank everyone who did make it out for last night’s meeting in the rain about the Intersection of Griswold and Sunset. We had between 20-25 people there throughout the evening and I think all agreed on most of the subjects brought up. Matt, Andrew, Ann and I are all going to work on putting a summary together and that will be sent out to everyone by tomorrow morning, so be on the lookout for that.

Our goal is to get a good summary of the neighborhood’s feelings on this intersection and speeding traffic that we can send to Juan Avendano, who is the Cambridge Traffic Calming Project Manager. We hope to send this summary out on Monday so he’ll be prepared for the meeting on Tuesday.

Thanks again to everyone who showed up!

Eric

Griswold-Sunset Meeting with the City

We just received this info from Juan Avendano, Traffic Calming Project Manager. Please note the attachments are in PDF format.

We are going to have two meeting about the proposed improvements to this intersection. The first meeting will having a neighborhood meeting on Friday, Oct 19th at 6:15pm at the intersection. This meeting will be for all residense to voice their opinions on the work planned and allow the neighborhood to get on the same page for the meeting with the City. The city meeting will be Tuesday, Oct 23rd at 6:30pm. If you have anything to add for the proposed work for the interestion please come to the neighborhood meeting on Friday or email me at ewelin@muttdom.com and let me know your concerns, questions and/or comments.

Eric

Juan P. Avendano
Traffic Calming Project Manager
Environmental and Transportation Planning Division
Community Development Department - City of Cambridge
344 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Phone: (617) 349-4655
TTY:   (617) 349-4621
FAX:   (617) 349-4633
Hours:  Mon, 8:30am to 8:00pm - Tues , Wed, Thru, 8:30am to 5:00pm - Fri, 8:30am to Noon