Oh brother, its not the road's fault, its the idiots who don't pay attention when they drive past it. I bike/drive on and near Ravine all the time. I can say it is pretty dangerous, but I think the resolution would be to stop arguing about it and fix the connection between Ravine and W Wyoming. The problem is that people don't stop at the line when they want to cross, and they cause traffic on W Wyoming street to slow or stop, backing up to Pond street.

If they only allow right turns, or extend the size of the island, I think it would help quite a bit. That way you don't have people trying to cross W Wyoming or decide at the last minute to turn left onto W Wyoming.

To Ashley Hill: I think you are thinking of the Fellsway intersection with Ravine Road - -very dangerous - -but the issue is with the traffic on the residential section that connects the Fellsway and W. Wyoming.

What about adding a speed bump? I work in Cambridge and there are a couple of side roads that I have to drive on that have speed bumps? Dell Ave. has them.....

If I remember correctly, the plan for traffic improvements for the Fells area included putting a modern roundabout at the the intersection of Ravine Road and Longfellow Road (You can find it somewhere on the DCR website). Putting a modern roundabout right in the middle of this stretch of road would do wonders. There's also the FACT that a modern roundabout is one of the safest and most efficient types of intersections. There are no modern roundabouts in the area so please don't reply with rotaries are bad because modern roundabouts aren't rotaries!

Sheesh. Turning Ravine Road into a one way seems silly. How does a one-way street slow drivers down?? Do people only speed one way and not the other? All it will do is just increase the traffic flow at the intersection of wyoming/Pond/Fellsway and frankly cause more people to cut down Ravine from Wyoming toward the Fellsway to avoid that new mess. Seems like actually trying to slow drivers down is what's needed on Ravine. The obvious solution to me would be to put an additional stop sign at the intersection of Longfellow/Ravine.

I can't understand how speed could be a concern on Ravine Rd. With all the cars parked on both sides of the road and the number of craters leftover from the winter, it's almost impossible to drive above 25 mph without wrecking your car.

Hi everyone. This morning, I spoke with Melrose City Solicitor Rob Van Campen, who reported he had scheduled a phone call with his counterpart in Stoneham for today. Mr. Van Campen said the city would welcome the findings of a traffic consultant and continues to try to get this plan into place with Stoneham. He also highlighted the fact that Melrose has no intention of diverting traffic from Ravine onto nearby side streets, which would then suffer their own set of problems. He hopes the consultant would look at the entire area, including Pond, Glen, the relevant end of W Wyoming, etc.

We'll post any updates we get...

Here's what I was talking about, image 7: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/pe/documents/fellsposter.pdf

Have Stoneham and Melrose been in contact with the DCR since they seem to have their own ideas for traffic calming?

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