The streets or portions thereof designated in Schedule I (§ 130-50) hereto appended and specifically incorporated in this section are declared to be one-way streets, and all vehicular traffic shall move on those streets or portions thereof in the direction designated in said Schedule I.
Within the area set forth below, vehicular traffic
shall move only in a rotary counterclockwise direction except when
otherwise directed by an officer.
The lane locations described in Schedule II (§ 130-51) are designated as lane use reservations, and traffic shall move as indicated.
No operator shall back or turn a vehicle so as to proceed in the direction opposite to that in which said vehicle is headed or traveling on the streets designated in Schedule III (§ 130-52).
A.
Every driver of a vehicle, railway car or other conveyance approaching an intersection of ways where there exists facing him an official sign bearing the word "stop" or a flashing red signal indication, said signs or signal having apart from these rules and regulations, the written approval of the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and such approval being in effect, shall, before proceeding through the intersection, bring such vehicle, railway car or other conveyance to a complete stop at such point as may be clearly marked by a sign or line, or, if a point is not so marked, then at the nearer line of crosswalk of said intersection. In the case of a line of two or more vehicles approaching such stop sign or flashing red signal indication, the drivers of the second and third vehicles in any group shall not be required to stop more than once before proceeding through the intersection. This section shall not apply when the traffic is otherwise directed by an officer or by a lawful traffic regulating sign, signal or device or as provided in § 130-48D.
A.
Vehicles over the registered gross weight are excluded from the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule V (§ 130-54), except for the pickup and delivery of materials on such streets.
B.
Subsection A of this section shall not apply to heavy commercial vehicles going to or coming from places upon said streets for the purpose of making deliveries of goods, materials or merchandise to or similar collections from abutting land or buildings or adjoining streets or ways to which access cannot otherwise be gained; or to vehicles used in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of said streets or public utilities therein; or to federal, state-, municipal- or public-corporation-owned vehicles.
