KevinCuddeback

Grate will catch bike tires. Needs to be turned 90degrees or replaced.

This is the wrong grate type (should be a checkerboard, not a highway grille). All other grates on the High School campus are the checkerboard type. This grille would be correct on I-93 but not here.

Either needs to be replaced, or (at least) turned 90deg so that a bike going along the road doesn't wedge a tire between the rungs.

Tree branches too low (and block view of Stop signs) at 3 places on Monument St in West Medford.

(1) 103 Monument St eastbound (at Holton St)
(2) 110 Monument St westbound (at Holton St)
(3) 74 Monument St westbound (at Harvard Ave)

Three street trees on Pitcher Ave have branches that are too low (hit by cars in the street, hitting pedestrians on the sidewalk)
15 Pitcher Ave, 21 Pitcher Ave, and 30 Pitcher Ave (in initial report image)

Tree on Roberts Rd approaching Bussell Rd blocks view of (newish) stop sign at Bussell, almost for the entire length of Roberts.

The Stop sign does not become visible until literally 20' (one car length) before the intersection.

I was not sure whether this was a tree problem or a sidewalk problem. what the locust trees on this blog or losing their fight with the sidewalk.

Fenced parking lot did not clear its sidewalk on Bower St. Address is approximately 13 Bower St

9 Bower sidewalk is a sheet of ice because it was uncleared.

Location: where Elm St exits/enters the "Flynn Rink Rotary"

Issue: Traffic makes illegal left from Elm St westbound into Fulton St southbound, across Elm St eastbound traffic entering the rotary. (despite the recent "No Left Turn" graphic sign)

Are the neighbors squatting, fencing, chaining-off, & dumping on the "00 Block" of Westvale Road (shown in MassGIS as a recorded street called "Avenue of Memories")?

This would make a natural way to walk to work or care at Lawrence Memorial if it were maintained as the public way that it appears to be.

As it is, it seems to be used for dumping construction rubble and parking stuff.
Image is from:
http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/oliver.php

With Medford Property Tax parcels (in purple) overlaid on the Orthos 2013 - 2014 base map.

Dangerous Grate (wrong type & orientation)

This should be a "checkerboard" iron grate so that it can't catch bike wheels. (All other grates around Medford High seem correct). Location is slightly uphill from the "drop off loop" in front of Medford High, just before the turn up to the Voke/Pool.

It is dangerous because is a highway grate oriented as if it were on an interstate, and could catch bike/scooter/rollerblade wheels, wedging them between the bars and flipping the person face-first onto the pavement.

If the grate can't be swapped for a checkerboard-style, it should at least turned 90degrees either way, so that skinny tires will rumble across rather than drop and wedge.

3 trees (mix of Maple & Pear) have low branches 6' to 8' over the sidewalk between 305 and 337 Salem St (odds/south side). Perfect for winter pruning

There's also a pear tree on the Evens/North side, with a large, low, stumpy side branch that the Tree Warden should be on the lookout for when in the area (but I didn't catch the location)

Stickers are accumulating on this sign (and earlier ones have left their rectangles of gunk)

Stop Sign is very faded and non-reflective. The one that tells Golden Hills Rd (Northbound) to stop as Sweetwater tees in from the right.

Located at the north end of the short block of Golden Hills Rd between Bay State Rd (from Melrose) and Sweetwater St

Outbound on High (MA 60) from W.Med.Sq. toward Arlington, there is a faded & hard to read sign at the crosswalk (see photo uploaded) lots of small text that looks like clutter and drivers may not "get" it in time.

Could we get, instead a big, clear, simple day glo sign?

Is this a School Zone? Maybe a School Crossing (MUTCD S1-1 Two Kids with Books) is appropriate here. Certainly a "regular" W11-2 (Pedestrian on Diamond). And an arrow pointing at the crosswalk?

Driving Inbound (from Arlington) at this crosswalk, there's no sign at all, and coming out of St Ray's usually has the feel of "stepping into traffic from between cars" even though the crosswalk is painted. On the St Ray's side a pole is probably hard (would mess up funeral loading or the pear trees), but could a sign go on the left (Citzens Bank) side?

Grove Street where it meets High Street was recently repaved. it seems like an oversight to not have a painted crosswalk at the Bennett Delta.it also seems like an oversight to not have a painted stop line on the pavement

Northbound on Grove St opposite 156 Grove, there is an obsolete warning sign (Green background and faded letters instead of MUTCD black-on-orange).

There's already a "Narrow Bridge" sign about 80 yards north of this point, but maybe either an icon (with an "AHEAD" below it) would be good additional help--or some other sign on this same post (like a speed limit sign?)--to try to slow people down in this area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MUTCD_W5-2a.svg

Sign has lost its black lettering. Fairly new (since 2011) it has a strong reflective background, but the words "Speed Limit" and "25" are now entirely white-on-white.