Hope it works!

Hmmm.. The GA passes tolls for the Sakonnet Bridge then bans trucks from Warren and Bristol while carving out an exception for all municipal vehicles.

Sound familiar? Verse, chorus, verse.

that would be smart!

This won't mean anything if Water St isn't included because the trucks will just use that road. Plus with the people who drive halfway on the opposite of the road now because they are going too fast you already have touble traveling down that way

couldn't get a light installed at child & main, ideas to make main st one way traffic and water street oneway never happen, bristol already has a no truck from gooding ave south, so does anyone think this will increase the traffic on Metacom? Trucks not wanting to pay the toll at the sakonnet will come thru warren and bristol to go to the island. I wish someone with a bit of sense come forward before the million of dolllars are spent.

Seems stupid to me. Now all the trucks are going to turn onto Meticom Avenue coming into Warren from the North and South. People can't get out of the side streets off Meticom now, never mind with the increase in traffic and all the red lights. The average drive now from Arlington avenue to Bristol is all of 35 minutes. downtown Warren was. Child Street while there certainly will be cars coming up from Chikd street

I think this could be beneficial providing law enforcement is proactive citing violators. Yes, Metacom Avenue is going to have more traffic. Unfortunately, this is a fact anyone who resides in either Bristol or Warren must deal with. Until the Super Highways arrive, I am resigned to the fact that it sometimes takes me longer to reach Rte 195 from Bristol than it does travelling 195 to Lincoln. Such is life. If you buy a home near a dump, don't complain about the flies! Felag and Malik are the best baby!

The lights along Metacom have to be adjust so those coming onto Metacom from a side stree don't have to wait forever to get out yet no change so often that Metacom traffic gets held up more than what it already is especially at the bottle neck heading south near the Bristol/Warren line. The left turn lights also have to be adjusted so more than 4 or 5 cars can make the turn before they turn red. We also need more cops out there handing out tickets for traffic violations instead of just sitting in a car with the a/c going watching the world go by. Plus as more condo complexes & housing devlopments get built the traffic will also increase. I think we all have to realize that the quality of life in the East Bay is not as good as it used to be & will only get worse.

This leaves several traffic issues on Main Street unresolved.

1 - Allowing cars to park on the west side of Main Street between Miller and Church Street means when someone headed South on Main Street is turning left onto Child Street cars cannot get around them. I believe the town had removed parking there at one point and the State, as it is a State road, made them change it back.

2 - The bike path button pushers. During the summer the bike path is flooded with users who want to cross Main Street at Campbell. This backs up traffic considerably during peak times. As the State appears to have nearly unlimited funds (raising the budget every year since the recession started) (sarcasm) a bridge could be built there to eliminate that issue.

A third related issue will be the traffic tie ups caused by the Police pulling over a violator. Stopping a tractor trailer in downtown Warren will tie up traffic. The tickets should reflect a high enough penalty that truck drivers won't forget it.

Since I'm in the South end of Bristol I would go around through Fall River prior to the Braga being painted. Now I head to 136 then down Market and left at the light. People who are going down Child and turning right are crazy. They need to cut to Market Street and then turn right.

On another note as one poster already mentioned traffic on Water Street should be slowed down. The town needs to install several speed bumps there to keep the speeds down.

One more thing - whoever parks their white pickup truck directly across from Vernon Street is blocking vehicles from getting around cars turning left at Vernon. Maybe parking 20-30 feet ahead or behind would allow for more traffic flow there. Just a suggestion not a complaint so if that person happens to read this please don't take offense.

I believe people still block the entrance to Child St off of Main St when the light @ Market is red which also prevents people from taking a left onto Child. I also believe there is a south facing sign that says not to block the road on a red light. You can hand out a bunch of traffic violations just in that one spot during the course of a day. There are many possible soulutions to the already heavy traffic problems we that live in the East Bay face every single day. Pretty soon what you see on weekends will be a 7 day a week problem from morning till night.

We are creating a situation for our Police Dept. that they won't be able to handle. There are generally only three beat men on a shift, add in the regular call volume and then throw in the on-slaught of expected responses to the traffic problems created by this mess and I just don't see them being able to handle it. I've learned to just deal with the increased traffic in Town, what I don't want is them writing $50 tickets while across town someones house is being robbed of thousands of dollars of personal property...Makes no sense. The toll issue is going to kill us in the long run, we will have increased accidents more delays and roads being damaged because of the increase in heavy truck traffic. If the State wants to send more traffic through Warren, let them fund us for some more Police officers.

It would have been much easier just to put a light at the end of Child Street. All that was accomplished is to worsen the situation of the forgotting citizens of Warren, who live on the east side of Meticom, and need to take a left turn toward Bristol. Down Town Warren's traffic is no way near the backups of Meticom. Come on, lets get real.

It would have been much easier just to put a light at the end of Child Street. All that was accomplished is to worsen the situation of the forgotting citizens of Warren, who live on the east side of Meticom, and need to take a left turn toward Bristol. Down Town Warren's traffic is no way near the backups of Meticom. Come on, lets get real.

I just think this was a bad idea all around. I can just see a larger truck with an unfamiliar driver, (though they said at the hearing they would put it on GPS), who is not paying attention to the GPS or what ever reason.

Stopping them, (not like they can pull over to the side very far, like a highway). You think traffic is backed up now, wait tell that happens, not to mention the old rubber necking. Plus like john says, time involved in this, plus probably a 2nd car, if there is a lot of traffic and the road is mostly blocked.

If you have ever seen a truck pulled over on Metacom in most parts, it is almost impossible to go around, and with traffic, rarely does the traffic the other way slow down or thin out, so a 2nd car is dispatched.

Sounds like a nightmare in the making to me.

Cant remember who exactly, but I believe it was Malik, and they said they would not enforce it until then, as someone at the hearing asked that question to the best I can recll anyway.

I wondered about the time frame and if all brands update at the same time. I know mine has troubles up around boston and sometimes even is providence, but I tell my wife its because its a female voice on it and has no sense of direction lol.

Of course that the point I get distracted from the hand coming toward my face, but thankfully I am use too it and adept at using one eye should the other one be getting smackerated lol.