Somerville road closures for DNC

[ceo]

Some useful links for dealing with the DNC:

Here, from the Somerville Journal, is the full list of closures and parking restrictions. Note that Highland Ave westbound will be no-parking as far as Cutter Ave. (where it goes one-way just outside Davis),and the that there will be no access in either direction between Highland and McGrath/O'Brien northbound. Union Square and the intersection of McGrath/O'Brien and Washington St. will see the worst of it— the traffic engineers quoted in the accompanying article did not actually use the phrase "cataclysmic hellhole of suck", but that was about the gist of it.

If you'd like to bike to work but don't want to deal with the traffic, Ron Newman of the Somerville Bicycle Committee has posted a low-traffic, no-hills bike route from Davis Square to Boston.

The T's special commuter rail schedules for the week are here. If you commute on the Red Line, timing your commute so as to avoid passing through Porter when commuter trains are due in is highly recommended, as that's where the Fitchburg Line will terminate.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with Porter? Aside the insanely long escalators, that is.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

It takes forever to get to the platform. I have missed more trains at that station than all the others I use regularly combined. And people have just never been able to grasp the concept of "standing to the right" and make it impossible to get up or down the escalators without saying "excuse me" about a hundred times. When the esclators are running, of course.
Then the commuter rail passengers. Don't get me started. They pour off the train like sheep and act as though they own the station. Um...you wanted to live in the burbs...could you at least act like you're a guest? Better yet, stay in the burbs.

The wait for a train at that station seems longer. And it seems to take longer than it should to get to Harvard. When I started going to work from Harvard instead of Porter, I left only 10 minutes earlier (it's a 20 minute walk for me), but was managing to get to work ahead of when I was getting into work earlier than I had when just walking to Porter (which is a 5 minute walk) and taking the train.

I loathe it.

[bluepapercup]

See, I feel that way about Harvard. I have that same it's-taking-so-damn-long feeling at Harvard fairly often. And, I've missed a ton of trains while running up that stupid, stupid ramp, loaded down with my bags.

Bah.

I guess though, as Bostonians, we have a right to pick a T station to hate.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Well, see, I enter Harvard at the Church Street entrance, not that main ramp entrance. Much better (and closer to Porter). I hate the main entrance, too.

It's the escalator stupidity, and the commuter rail idiots that make Porter so vile to me.

So as not to be all negative...I am rather fond of Central...I like that you can go through the turnstile and get right on a train. And the tiles are pretty.