Somerville road closures for DNC
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davis_squareSome 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-07-23 07:26 am (UTC)Bah.
I guess though, as Bostonians, we have a right to pick a T station to hate.
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Date: 2004-07-23 07:35 am (UTC)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.