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

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

excellent, thanks. (and thank god i don't have to take the t or the commuter rail to get anywhere....) fnx had a guy on the radio this morning talking about road closures and whatnot, and he was absolutely no help whatsoever, except apparently 93 isn't closed all the time. (but when is it open? and in what direction? i have no idea.)

[ceo]

93 southbound is closed from Exit 32 (Rte. 60) in Medford to Exit 20 (Mass. Pike). It will be restricted to two lanes south of Exit 37C (Anderson/RTC, just north of 128) for the duration.

93 northbound is closed from Exit 20 (with on-ramps closed south of that all the way down to the Braintree split) to the Assembly Square onramp in Somerville.

Storrow and Memorial Drives inbound will be closed at Western Ave and the BU Bridge respectively. Storrow outbound will be closed from Leverett Circle to Charles Circle.

All of these closures are in effect every night of the convention from 4PM until sometime after the convention closes for the night. The lane restrictions on I-93 will be in effect the entire time.

The Globe has a guide to the major road closures, here.

[bluepapercup]

4 pm until 1 am.

I have to go to Quincy for work on Monday morning, and since I am working alone I've already decided to get there around 5 am, do my work, and hopefully be outta there by lunchtime, missing the horrible (I expect) morning snarl. Heh. We'll see.