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The politest intersection in Boston
By adamg on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 7:51pm
Boston's only polite intersection? Maybe that's what happens when you put an intersection in the middle of a forest. Mike Ball hails the intersection of Enneking, Turtle Pond and Dedham parkways deep in the woods of Stony Brook Reservation, where drivers not only obey the four-way stop but are actually courteous to one another:
... Could it be something in the oxygen from all the foliage? Might some nearby unknown native American burial ground be affecting Bostonians as they arrive at the intersection? Would the bucolic nature of the park all around calm the savages?
The cause is far less important than the mere existence of the magic intersection. ...
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I guess I am not the only one who noticed.
even in the height of rush hour, its a very civil intersection.
rush hour
I have a theory that the reason people are so polite there is because those going up down Turtle Pond et al during rush hour are thankful that they're not stuck on 93, the pike or the 128? A nice windy road through the woods without cross traffic versus ...
You've got to be kidding
I used to use that intersection as the prime example of how people in Boston don't know how to do four way stops. Sheesh.
Things are slowly changing
As we get more of those exotic four-way stops. I remember when nobody knew what to do at them either, but now even the Dedham Mall has two of them - one right after the other, in fact.
Huh
I had to look at the map on that one. Six years here, and there's still plenty of Boston I haven't seen.
Just past that intersection ...
Going toward Hyde Park, is a small parking lot. Park there (or if it's full, across the street at the ballfield), follow the path to the left and you'll be amazed you're in the largest city in New England (it's probably a bit late now, but the foliage views from the Turtle Pond dock are just wonderful).
It really is
I think that's where I learned about 4-way Stop signs, and for as long as I can remember that has been one of very few intersections I know where everyone stops and waits for his or her turn.