Showing posts with label Street Hazard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Street Hazard. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Enhancing Driver Pleasure In Cambridge

Cambridge MA, host city to Harvard University and MIT claims to be a diverse city. But here is evidence that they openly discriminate against people who do not read English. While some cities publish all official business in many languages Cambridge has their street signs only in English. This is shameful. It shows that the City Council talks the talk but does not walk the walk when it comes to making Cambridge a hospitable city for immigrants. In spite of official city policy as a sanctuary city the City Council requires drivers, even those without licenses, to read street signs in English. Listen to the deafening silence of compassionate Democrats who rule the city and the state. Diversity is only a talking point for these one party governments.

See finished product below.

























































Here's what the finshed product looks like. This paving job was done well. The asphalt meets the sidewalk and there are no lips which create barriers to persons who use wheelchairs and to persos with strollers, and/or wheeled luggage carriers.












Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Cambridge Cafe Blocks Sidewalk, Bike Lane

These images captured on Tuesday September 8, 2009 at about 5:00 PM shows a delightful European style Cambridge MA cafe taking up most of the sidewalk near Porter Square on Mass Avenue. Pedestrians are limited to one person at a time to pass by this enormous structure on the sidewalk. Two images show foliage hanging into the street blocking part of the bicycle lane forcing cyclists to ride nearer to traffic at this very dangerous intersection. On my way home a young man approached me asking "Did you get your picture?" Later that night a suspected employee of this cafe was at my building residence harassing me because of "business reasons." Are Cambridge restaurants out of control or what? This was a clear violation of the MA Civil Rights statute MGL Ch. 265 Sec. 37, and if he was as suspected working also for the police a First Amendment violation. To discourage more revealing photos a suspected associate of the man made threats saying "You will be hit." Are these members of organized crime making threats or police acting like criminals? But in Cambridge and Massachusetts where laws are optional what does that matter? Cambridge won an award for the most walkable city.



This image looks toward Harvard Square at Porter Square.


This image looks toward North Cambridge from Porter Square.








Friday, February 29, 2008

Bicycle and Plow Hazard

[Someone removed the metal plate at Broadway and Prescott Street over the weekend of March 1,2, 2008]

A metal plate 30 inches by 40 inches one inch thick was dropped on Broadway near Prescott Street after the snow storm on February 22, 2008. It is a hazard for bicycles and for snow plows. Snow is expected on Friday February 29, 2008.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Street Hole Lost Its Cover

At the Bus Stop on Broadway near Fayette Street in Cambridge MA a large hole about 12 inches in diameter lost its cover. It may have disappeared during the snow storm on Friday February 22, 2008.
The City replaced the cover for this hole on Tuesday February 26, 2008. The power of video.