[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 125, § 1; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 2]
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate which ways or parts of ways are to constitute throughways under the provisions of MGL c. 89, § 9, and subject to the terms thereof.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 28, 8-11-1967, § 1]
Every driver of a vehicle, railway car or other conveyance approaching an intersection of a way with a lawful throughway where there exists facing them a sign bearing the word "stop" or a flashing red signal indication, such sign or signal being in accordance with the requirements of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, shall, in the case of a flashing red signal, before proceeding through the intersection, bring such vehicle, railway car or other conveyance to a complete stop at the nearer line of the street intersection, and in the case of a stop sign at such point as may be clearly marked by a sign or line or, if a point is not so marked, then at a place between the stop sign and the nearer line of the street 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 line 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. For the purposes of this section, a way joining a throughway at an angle, whether or not it crosses the same, shall be deemed to intersect it, and the word "way," unless the context otherwise requires, shall include a through or other way.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2]
Every operator of a vehicle or other conveyance approaching an intersection of ways where there exists facing them an official sign bearing the word "stop," and authorized by this chapter, such sign having, apart from this regulation, the written approval of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and such approval being in effect, shall, before proceeding through the intersection, bring such vehicle 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 a place between such stop sign and the nearer line of the street intersection. In the case of a line of two or more vehicles approaching such stop sign, the operators of the second and third vehicles in line 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 in operation.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 28, § 1; Ord. No. 41, § 2; Ord. No. 110, § 1; Ord. No. 115, § 1; Ord. No. 147, § 1; Ord. No. 176, § 1; Ord. No. 179, § 1; Ord. No. 184, § 1; Ord. No. 227, § 1; Ord. No. 232, § 1; Ord. No. 292, § 1; Ord. No. 310, §§ 2, 3; Ord. No. 344, § 1; Ord. No. 357, § 1; Ord. No. 364; § 1; Ord. No. 433, § 1; Ord. No. 445, § 1; Ord. No. 496, § 1; Ord. No. 497, § 1; Ord. No. 498, § 1; Ord. No. 530, § 1; Ord. No. 551, § 1; Ord. No. 565, § 1; Ord. No. 617, § 1; Ord. No. 1, 12-27-1966, § 1; Ord. No. 15, 4-12-1967, § 1; Ord. No. 29, 8-11-1967, § 6; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 3]
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate at what places and facing in which direction official stop signs shall be erected.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The list of stop sign locations contained in this section is not set out in this Code but will be found on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 41, 10-80-1967, § 17]
Every driver of a vehicle or other conveyance approaching an intersection of ways, where there exists facing them an official sign bearing the word "yield," such sign having been erected in accordance with the written approval of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and such approval being in effect, shall surrender to oncoming traffic their right to enter the intersection until such time as they have brought their vehicle or other conveyance to a complete stop at a point between such "yield" sign and the nearer line of the street intersection; provided, however, that this requirement to stop before entering the intersection shall not apply when a driver approaching a "yield" sign can enter the intersection in safety without causing interference to approaching traffic.
A. 
This section shall not apply when the traffic is otherwise directed by an officer or by a lawful traffic regulating sign, signal or device.
B. 
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate at which places and facing in which direction official "yield" signs shall be erected.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 317, § 1, 10-26-1978]
The driver of a vehicle emerging from a private road, driveway or garage shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving upon the sidewalk area extending across such driveway or garage, and where no such sidewalk exists the stop shall be made at the building or property line as the case may be and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles approaching on the roadway.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 1094, § III, 11-25-2014]
The operator of a vehicle shall not drive within any sidewalk area except over a permanent driveway, nor over a temporary driveway when the weight of the vehicle and load exceeds four tons, unless a permit has been obtained from the Commissioner of Public Services.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 62, § 2; Ord. No. 85, § 1; Ord. No. 91, § 1; Ord. No. 93, § 1; Ord. No. 343, § 2; Ord. No. 453, § 1; Ord. No. 525, § 1; Ord. No. 527, § 1; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 4]
A. 
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate the way or parts of ways upon which vehicular traffic shall move only in a specified direction.
B. 
A sufficient number of standard signs shall be erected and maintained at the exit of each one-way street so that at least one sign shall be clearly visible for a distance of at least 100 feet to drivers of vehicles approaching any such exit.
[1]
Editor's Note: The one-way streets referred to in this section are not set out herein; the schedule will be found on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2]
A. 
Operators of cars in a funeral procession shall designate the same by a flag or other device.
B. 
Vehicles in all other authorized processions shall be designated in some conspicuous manner.
C. 
Funerals or other authorized processions which have entered an intersection controlled by traffic signals, on a "go" signal, shall proceed until the last vehicle in the procession has crossed the intersection, regardless of any change in the traffic signals prior to the crossing of the intersection by the last vehicle in the procession.
[Ord. No. 11, § 2, 3-2-1967]
A. 
When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation, the driver of a vehicle, which for the purposes of this article shall include bicycles, shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be so to yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is travelling or when the pedestrian approaches from the opposite half of the roadway to within five feet of that half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is travelling.
B. 
No operator of a vehicle shall pass any other vehicle which has been stopped at a marked crosswalk to permit a pedestrian to cross a way, nor shall any operator enter a marked crosswalk until there is sufficient space on the other side of the crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle they are operating, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 179, § 1, 12-15-1972; Ord. No. 256, § 1, 5-27-1976; Ord. No. 291, § 1, 8-16-1977; Ord. No. 1332, 11-13-2025]
A. 
No street shall be used for the purposes of a parade, procession or organized gathering on march, except a military parade or funeral procession, without first securing for the same a permit from the City of Pittsfield.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to lead any parade, procession or organized gathering or march, except a military parade or funeral procession, without first obtaining a permit for the same from the City of Pittsfield.
C. 
In either case, such permit shall issue unless the Chief of Police determines that the issue thereof is inconsistent with public safety, public order or the reasonable maintenance of traffic, subject to such reasonable regulations and conditions as may be imposed by the Chief of Police.
D. 
No permit as aforesaid shall be required for the purposes of a parade, procession, or organized gathering or march sponsored by the City of Pittsfield or any of its departments or duly constituted commissions thereof, approved by and assented to by the Mayor.
[Ord. No. 548, § 1, 9-9-1986; Ord. No. 1332, 11-13-2025]
All costs under this section shall be borne by the person granted the permit under Section 13-41.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 41, § 5, 10-30-1967]
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate the ways or parts of ways upon which no commercial vehicle, except as hereinafter indicated, shall be operated at any time. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
A. 
Commercial vehicles going to or from premises situated on a street or portion thereof named or referred to in this section, from or to which vehicular access cannot be had by means of a public way, except by the use of such street or portion thereof;
B. 
Commercial vehicles belonging to the City and operated by or in connection with departments thereof, or such vehicles belonging to or operated by public service or public utility corporations, in connection with work required to be done on such streets or portions thereof;
C. 
Police or Fire Department vehicles, ambulances or funeral processions;
D. 
Vehicles engaged in collecting or distributing United States mail;
E. 
Commercial vehicles owned or operated by the federal government or an instrumentality thereof, or vehicles engaged in interstate commerce, so far as the City does not have the legal right to regulate or control the operation of such vehicles or to exclude them from the use of such street or portion thereof.
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Editor's Note: The specific streets and parts of streets referred to in this section are not set out in this Code but are kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 6; Ord. No. 581, § 1, 4-30-1987]
A. 
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate the ways or parts of ways upon which no heavy commercial vehicle, except as hereinafter indicated, shall be operated at any time. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine as stated in Chapter 4 1/2 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 1332, 11-13-2025]
B. 
The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) 
Heavy commercial vehicles going to or from premises situate on a street or portion thereof named or referred to in this section, from or to which vehicular access cannot be had by means of a public way, except by the use of such street or portion thereof;
(2) 
Heavy commercial vehicles belonging to the City and operated by or in connection with departments thereof, or such vehicles belonging to or operated by public service or public utility corporations, in connection with work required to be done on such streets or portions thereof;
(3) 
Police or Fire Department vehicles, ambulances or funeral processions;
(4) 
Vehicles engaged in collecting or distributing United States mail;
(5) 
Heavy commercial vehicles owned or operated by the federal government or an instrumentality thereof, or vehicles engaged in interstate commerce, so far as the City does not have the legal right to regulate or control the operation of such vehicles, or to exclude them from the use of such street or portion thereof.
[1]
Editor's Note: The specific streets and parts of streets referred to in this section are not set out in this Code but are kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2; Ord. No. 546, § 2; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 7]
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate the ways or parts of ways, in the directions specified, that an operator of a vehicle shall not make a left turn at a specified intersection when official signs are erected indicating such restrictions.
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Editor's Note: The intersections referred to in this section are not set out in this Code but are kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 544, § 1; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 8]
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate the ways or parts of ways, in the directions specified, that an operator of a vehicle shall not make a right turn at a specified intersection when official signs are erected indicating such restrictions.
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Editor's Note: The intersections referred to in this section are not set out in this Code but are kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 546, § 1; Ord. No. 553, § 1; Ord. No. 41, 10-30-1967, § 9]
The City Council may, by order, determine and designate the ways or parts of ways, in the directions specified, that an operator of a vehicle shall only make a right turn at a specified intersection when official signs are erected indicating such restrictions.
[1]
Editor's Note: The intersections referred to in this section are not set out in this Code but are kept on file in the office of the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 163, § 1, 11-10-1971[1]]
A. 
At any signalized or other intersection of ways where the roadway is divided into lanes by pavement markings or other means and official signs are erected requiring a right turn or left turn only for such lanes, drivers of vehicles in the designated lanes must make such movement and no other at said intersection.
B. 
The City Council shall determine and designate by order the intersections to which this section shall be applicable.
[1]
Amendment Note: Ord. 163, § 1, added Sec. 13-46.1 to this Code.
[Ord. No. 33, § 1; Ord. No. 84, § 1; Ord. No. 1332, 11-13-2025]
No person operating a motor vehicle in either direction on South Street or North Street between the southerly line of Bank Row and the property of the Berkshire Medical Center at the intersection of North Street and Wahconah Street, shall:
A. 
Turn such vehicle within North Street or South Street so as to face or operate in the opposite direction from that in which such vehicle was operating before such turn;
B. 
Drive such vehicle to the opposite half of the street for the purpose of stopping, standing or parking such vehicle on the opposite side of the street; or
C. 
Drive such vehicle across the center of such street, to the left hand side thereof, for any purpose other than to cross such left-hand side and enter a street, way or driveway leading therefrom and into which it is lawful to operate such vehicle.
[Ord. No. 26, § 2]
The operator of any vehicle traveling upon a way, or part of way, which is divided by a parkway, grass plot, reservation or similar area, or by a subway or structure shall keep such vehicle to the right of such division, except when otherwise directed by any officer or by lawful signs, signals or markings.
[Ord. No. 4, § 2, 12-27-1966]
A. 
No person shall drive in such a manner as to obstruct unnecessarily the normal movement of traffic on any street or highway.
B. 
No driver of any vehicle shall enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space beyond the intersection or crosswalk and on the right half of the roadway to accommodate the vehicle they are driving without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed, except that on a one-way street, drivers shall not be restricted to the use of the right half of the roadway but may have access to the entire width thereof beyond the intersection or crosswalk if such is available.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
Within areas specified and posted for rotary traffic, operators shall proceed only in a rotary counterclockwise direction, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
When any roadway is divided into lanes, the driver of a vehicle shall so drive that the vehicle shall be entirely within a single lane, and they shall not move from the lane in which they are driving until they have first ascertained if such movement can be made with safety.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
Upon all roadways the driver of a vehicle shall drive in the lane nearest the right side of the roadway when said lane is available for travel, except when overtaking another vehicle or when preparing for a left turn.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
The driver of any vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass at a safe distance to the left thereof and shall not cut in ahead of such other vehicle until safely clear of it.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
The driver of a vehicle shall not overtake and pass a vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless there is sufficient clear space ahead on the right side of the roadway to permit the overtaking to be completed without impeding the safe operation of any vehicle ahead or without causing the driver of any such vehicle to change their speed or alter their course, except as provided in the following section.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
The driver of a vehicle when about to be overtaken and passed by another vehicle approaching from the rear shall give way to the right when practicable in favor of the overtaking vehicle, on suitable and audible signal being given by the driver of the overtaking vehicle, and shall not increase the speed of their vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of such vehicle and the traffic upon and condition of the highway.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
Upon roadways less than 27 feet wide and upon which vehicular traffic is permitted to operate in both directions, the driver of any slow-moving commercial vehicle when travelling outside of a business or residential district shall not follow another slow-moving commercial vehicle within 200 feet, but this shall not be construed to prevent such slow-moving commercial vehicle from overtaking and passing another slow-moving commercial vehicle. This section shall not apply to funerals or other lawful processions.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978; Ord. No. 1332, 11-13-2025]
The driver of any vehicle before starting, stopping, turning from a direct line, or backing shall first see that such movement can be made in safety. If such movement cannot be made in safety or if it interferes unduly with the normal movement or other traffic, said driver shall wait for a more favorable opportunity to make such a movement. If the operation of another vehicle should be affected by a stopping or turning movement, the driver of such other vehicle shall be given a plainly visible signal, as required by MGL c. 90, § 14B (Ter. Ed.).
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978]
No operator shall enter upon the road surface of any highway or section thereof when by reason of construction, surface treatment, maintenance or the like, or because of some unprotected hazard, such road surface is closed to travel, and one or more signs, lights or signals have been erected to indicate that all or part of the road surface of the highway is not to be used, or when so advised by an officer, watchman, member of a highway crew or employee of the department, either audibly or by signals.
[Ord. No. 318, § 1, 10-26-1978; Ord. No. 1332, 11-13-2025]
Whenever traffic signs are erected or warning lights are displayed in or adjacent to a highway to notify of the presence of persons and equipment in such highway, every motorist shall regulate the speed of their vehicle in a manner and to a degree consistent with the particular condition.