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?

Comments

[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?