Whenever anyone tells you how well or poorly the N Mass Ave bus lanes are working, please aggressively apply the asterisk that customers of the paint store delay the inbound trip for every bus and car occupant Every Single Morning.
@bikepedantic as per usual with bus lanes the buses need cameras to enforce the bus lanes. Car drivers just never do the right thing (as a group) without being forced.
@bikepedantic What are the dashed lines for in that bus lane?
@sdwilsh @bikepedantic parking/loading is permitted off peak
@wtrmt @bikepedantic who needs police? Here's a picture with the license plate, put a ticket in the mail!
@bikepedantic Anyone know what the ticket description is for bus lane parking? Looking on #CambMA opendata, I can't find one. Here's a graph for "Bus Stop" citations.
From a quick search, I think the relevant statute is MGL ch. 161A, § 46 which was amended to add "and designated bus lanes" after "bus stops," so it might be the same citation.
@bikepedantic In any case, not a great look that #CambMA is decreasing enforcement. At least from my experience, the decrease in citations is not due to a decrease in violations. Perhaps require the police to commute by bus once a week? I also reached out to the dataset owner on opendata to see if we could get info for the past two years!
@bikepedantic it’s ridiculous. Every morning, they’re there before 9. That bus lane may as well be just for parking and turns
@sofio I put in a couple of 311 requests a long time ago, just to establish a record. Maybe I’ll try that again.
@bikepedantic could email someone at TP&T. They run parking enforcement, which gives them even better control.
@bikepedantic pretty sure people would counter that this is evidence that street parking is needed more than the bike lane.
@bikepedantic that’s some … awfully familiar looking enforcement.