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Near Porter Square, a rough crossing

It's a heavily traveled crossroads that connects drivers moving between Union Square in Somerville and Porter Square and Inman Square in Cambridge. But tipster Janice Zazinski of Somerville says a couple of relatively simple upgrades to this one key intersection could vastly improve safety for cyclists and speed up the traffic flow.

Don't hold your breath for bridge repairs

Familiarity breeds contempt. The saying certainly applies to roadwork projects that seem to drag on longer in direct proportion to how much inconvenience they cause.

Seeing red over unnecessary traffic light

"Honk if you think this light is stupid." That's the battle cry tipster David P. Sullivan says he's been tempted to use over a relatively new traffic signal on Gerry's Landing Road in Cambridge that he says makes absolutely no sense.

City has plans to tame traffic free-for-all

It's like a rugby scrum, only with cars instead of burly men in shorts. That pretty much sums up the chaotic mess created by nearly-constant traffic jams in tipster Mike Hill's Fields Corner neighborhood.