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But the drivers, intent on dodging one another as they wind through one of Boston’s more perplexing and congested traffic configurations, blow through all the yield signs, including the ones that tell them to give way to pedestrians in crosswalks. The women finally spy an opening and scurry across, Oman pushing a precious cargo: the stroller carrying her 2-year-old daughter, Cadence.A screech rings out, followed by a boom. Two SUVs have collided at an exit from the rotary. The front bumper hangs off of one; a basketball-sized dent scars the passenger side of the second. Startled passengers straggle out of a white City Cab van also involved in the crash. Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here Taking in the scene, Oman’s mother shakes her head and mutters to herself, “Grandma is never walking down here.” It’s 8:40 a.m. on Kosciuszko Circle. And that’s the third collision in less than two hours.Most drivers don’t know the official name of this overtaxed convergence of four roads on the threshold of Dorchester and South Boston — “K Circle” and “devil rotary” are two nicknames one hears, as well as others that can’t be printed.
And many who know it don’t know how to pronounce it: (it’s Kosh - CHOO - shkoh.) A monument to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish general who helped win the Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War, stands in the middle, but most drivers are too busy glancing from left to right to left again — or simply closing their eyes and wishing for the best — to notice it. Of all the evils the city’s Olympic bid committee says it will cure if Boston is chosen to host the 2024 Games, this migraine-inducing circus of outdated road design and aggressively confused drivers would seem among the most ripe for change. The rotary was first installed in the 1920s, decades before the Interstate 93 exits were built nearby as part of the Southeast Expressway, causing the backups that would torment travelers to the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, the Dorchester Bay beaches, and the Boston Globe headquarters, among other destinations in South Boston and Dorchester. Peter Furth, a professor at Northeastern University who studies traffic, said the old-fashioned design is partly to blame.
There are supposed to be two lanes that run around the entire circle, not that anyone would know that, because there are no painted lane markers. The circle also includes an impromptu third lane for drivers who travel only one exit, which others try to exploit as they enter the fray, cutting off vehicles already in the rotary, who have the right of way.“The older rotary design is based on the assumption that traffic would be light, and that there would always be gaps so that you could fly in and out,” Furth said. Lunging and squeezing is more like it now — though the result is usually no more than aggravation and alarming near-misses. Emily Oman recalls her husband having to jump to avoid a car that nearly ran him over during a morning jog. The irritated accounts of the drivers involved in the crash that unfolded as Oman crossed nearby made it clear this is a archetypal case study in a rotary gone wrong. The cab driver says the woman standing to his right, tearing up underneath her sunglasses, failed to yield as she drove her SUV across lanes, and hit the second SUV at the exit to William J. Day Boulevard.
“The people here, they never stop,” exclaims the cabbie, who only gives his first name as Jam. “They never stop!”A State Police trooper at the scene gives his own assessment of Kosciuszko Circle before he heads back to his cruiser.“The circle isn’t bad,” he says. “The drivers are bad.” To better educate motorists, and perhaps soothe their nerves, the Registry of Motor Vehicles clearly details the rules of the rotary in its driver’s manual. If there is more than one lane in the rotary and you need to go farther than two exits, enter through the innermost lane, it explains.“Do not attempt to move out of your lane until it is safe to do so,” the manual says, before following up with some sage advice. “If you miss your exit, do not get upset.”The manual reads as if it has never met a Massachusetts driver. Drivers are not supposed to stop in the rotary, it says, even if it means missing the intended exit and going around the circle one more time. In bold, it reads: “Do not stop in the rotary.”
Robert LeBovidge, who works at a travel company on Morrissey Boulevard, wishes the driver in front of him one day a few years ago had absorbed that advice. Instead, the motorist suddenly slammed on the brakes near the Interstate 93 exit and stopped in the rotary, in the path of LeBovidge’s Toyota Corolla. He hit the brakes, but it was too late, and the vehicle was totaled in the accident, he says.LeBovidge takes the T more now, but sometimes finds himself in Kosciuszko. He says a silent prayer each time he enters. “Let me get through this,” he’ll say in his head, only half-joking.At 5:20 p.m., he drives his boss’s maroon Jeep SUV up to a line of cars on Morrissey Boulevard waiting to enter the circle. LeBovidge glances to his left, and notices that Interstate 93 is backed up. That’s partly why the circle is so packed.Still, his silent prayer seems to work. There are no near-misses, no accidents, and he travels all 270 degrees to Columbia Road without a hitch.But his prayers do not translate to faith that the Olympics will make things better.”
If anything, it’s going to get worse,” he said. “It’s very rare that traffic gets better.” Furth, the traffic planner, has even worse news: Any time the interstate is backed up, the circle will be backed up.But he also says a well-designed, modern roundabout — smaller, without those extra lanes that encourage drivers to zoom into the circle — could improve traffic flow. Though fewer cars could enter at once, the circle would be more orderly. Splitting the rotary into two stories, one level for cars, the other for walkers and bikers, would also help.Boston 2024, the organization pushing the Olympic bid, suggests a different fix for the circle, which will be part of its plan to develop the area around the Athletes’ Village that would be built at Columbia Point.Though the specifics still need to be worked out, Boston 2024 wants to remake the circle into an intersection with a traffic signal. That would be accompanied by extending Day Boulevard farther south, to relocate its connection with Mount Vernon Street, which is now just off the rotary.
Just south of the circle, a new road would connect the extended Day Boulevard to Morrissey Boulevard. Richard A. Davey, executive director of the bid committee, and a former state transportation secretary, says a four-way intersection in place of the circle would make the area safer for bikers and pedestrians. And the new road that connects Day Boulevard and Morrissey Boulevard would allow some of the traffic to bypass the intersection altogether.“Traffic is a lot like water,” said Davey, whose Zen approach belies the fact that he has met plenty of Massachusetts drivers. “You give it various pathways to move; then it will disperse.”At 4 p.m., as Richard Ledwidge leads his two leashed dogs across Old Colony Avenue, traffic on Kosciuszko is neither moving nor dispersing.A traffic light on Columbia Road has cars backed up into the rotary, clogging the circle. Drivers cutting off fellow commuters choke the passageway even further.Ledwidge is an Englishman. He says the drivers in the United Kingdom’s many “roundabouts” know not to wildly swerve from lane to lane, and only change lanes when they’re trying to exit.