Beech Street closed Wed-Thur 10/26-27 for repaving

[ron_newman]

Beech Street in Cambridge will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, October 26 and 27, for repaving.

This information comes from an electric variable message sign at Beech and Orchard, and from temporary cardboard No Parking signs on the street. The cardboard signs say 7 am to 5 pm only, but the electric sign doesn't mention hours.

(The electric sign also says "WEATHER PERMITTED". Surely they mean PERMITTING? The weather forecast for those two days is not promising, so this could well be postponed)

As someone who regularly bikes on this road, I'll be thrilled to see it repaved. It is boneshatteringly awful right now.

Comments

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they are saying that the weather has its proper permits and thus will not be ticketed on those days.

(Yeah, I'm tired.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_meej_/]

Oh, thank goodness. It's long overdue.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I think Oxford Street might be even worse (that first block coming off of Beacon St.).

[ron_newman]

Some of that is in Somerville but more of it is in Cambridge. The Somerville Bicycle Committee has included Somerville's part of Oxford Street in our request to the Mayor that Beacon Street be improved.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

\o/

[elements.livejournal.com]

Per that, since the last time we talked that block of Oxford has hurt my bike twice more. Once another knocking the chain off alignment, which thankfully I now can fix myself with 5 minutes I don't have to spare on the way to work and getting my hands greasy, and then the other day doing something that has made my left rear wheel wobble to the extent that as of a woman in a car yelling at me about it out her window tonight I'm not biking anymore til I can afford to have it looked at. GRRR, bad pavement!

Oh also, this morning Mossland, which isn't usually that terrible, knocked the chain off alignment.

I was thinking one other street to add to the general to-do list is the stretch of Meacham from the intersection with Buena Vista to Dover. It's atrocious, especially so close to the bike path. But less of a danger, since it can usually be taken very slowly due to low traffic.