Best cars for Davis-area roads?

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

My car is approaching end-of-life, and I'm wondering if there's a car made that actually feels comfortable to drive on the roads around here. I'm getting a -very- harsh ride on the roads in and out of Davis and its a little embarassing when picking somebody up to visit. Trying to avoid that with the next car.

The OB-Davis content: We all drive on the same unevenly patched roads in and out of Davis, so when somebody says they can drive Mass Ave or Boston Ave and not feel a thing, that's a strong recommendation.

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[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

A little bit of each. The company had its own garage, I had to pay per month to park, but it looked extremely subsidized in comparision to what some of those garages cost.

The short commute was a combination of flexible work hours ( roughly 10-7 ) with a creative use of the roads in the East Cambridge/Back Bay area, with about four redundant alternate routes.

There's a lot of interesting old rail beds in the Bedford through Lowell area which got converted to pedestrian and bike paths. There's one which I think splits off the Minuteman path, up by the VA hospital in Bedford and ends in an office park on the Bedford/Billerica/Chelmsford border, so it really is possible to cycle to Chelmsford.

But as far as the New Deal, while I usually go libertarian this would be a very good time to bring back the WPA. The infrastructure is crumbling, and people need jobs.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of interesting old rail beds in the Bedford through Lowell area which got converted to pedestrian and bike paths.

Indeed the route I mentioned above (what used to be the Lowell and Framingham Railroad) is slated to become the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail (http://www.brucefreemanrailtrail.org). Based on your geographical description it sounds like we're talking about the same thing. According to their own timetable the first phase should be finished any day now.

But as far as the New Deal, while I usually go libertarian this would be a very good time to bring back the WPA. The infrastructure is crumbling, and people need jobs.

Yeah, and this time lets do it favoring trains instead of cars, since we're spending the money anyway.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

That one's a little further west than the one I'm thinking of. In the 1800s, there was a resort area called "Bedford Springs" where Middlesex Community College is now. That and the cottages around Nutting Lake, Billerica, were a vacation spot, and people would take the train up.