http://fenicedautun.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] fenicedautun.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2010-05-26 11:55 am
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Best route to Mass Pike at rush hour?

So I just got a job offer for a job that would require me to take the pike out to Framingham area every morning. I've never actually tried to get to the pike (I'm in Ball Square area) in the morning, and wondered if anybody had favored routes?

[identity profile] mrf-arch.livejournal.com 2010-05-27 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, this is probably what I'd recommend from Ball Sq. (It is what I do from Medford Sq, but from my house it's easy to shoot straight down Mystic Ave to this point.)

You'll be in traffic from the foot of the Sullivan Square on-ramp to 93, and from there until about the Prospect St off ramp in the tunnel, but other than that, the only other usual backup is that there tend to be slow patches around exit 17 in Newton, though I'm usually going through that area around 8, and it's not been too bad at that hour.

FastLane will be required though - the other place that route can have hold ups is going through the tolls.

[personal profile] ron_newman 2010-05-27 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I am confused -- where is the 'Prospect St off ramp in the tunnel' ?

[identity profile] mrf-arch.livejournal.com 2010-05-30 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry. Purchase Street. I shouldn't LJ while half asleep.