Best route to Mass Pike at rush hour?

[fenicedautun.livejournal.com]

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?

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[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

95 South isn't a mess at that hour? My roommate commutes to Lexington and is always complaining about a) getting on Route 2 in Cambridge and b) 128. She says 128 is a total crapshoot in the mornings in both directions.

From Porter Square, I usually take Beacon/Hampshire to Prospect to Western and go over the Western Ave. bridge to the Pike, but I don't use it during rush hours. Coming from Ball Square, you can easily pick up that route if you come down Cedar/Mossland and make the left on Somerville Ave.

[t4e-ds.livejournal.com]

Tried this but the Beacon-Hampshire-Prospect-Western is a total no-go during rush hours. Too much traffic at Inman Square and on Prospect.

It depends on where in Lexington, but I think your friend can likely find some back roads to Lexington if she got out one or two exits before the Rte 2/95 Xn.

[ron_newman]

No reason to use Prospect Street at all if you do this -- instead turn right from Beacon/Hampshire onto Inman, jog across Mass. Ave. onto Pleasant Street, then bear right onto Western Ave.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Inman approaching Mass Ave is very bad in the PM rush. Is it ok in the AM?