Bike Path to Alewife?

[logt.livejournal.com]

Anobody can point me to where exactly the Minuteman bike path starts at Davis going to Alewife?

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[ukelele.livejournal.com]

It depends on the day, but I usually find Mass Ave preferable to the bike path. If it's a weekend and at all nice, the path is coated with small children, dogs, rollerbladers with earphones, and generalized idiots who don't know that the path has rules. By contrast, Mass Ave is filled with people who do know the rules (which aren't always the same as the laws...but at least everyone knows them), and even generally follow them. OK, if I got into a crash on Mass Ave it would hurt a lot more than a crash on the bike path...however, I have had many more crashes and near misses on the path than on the road. (As in, no crashes on the road, but I ran into a little kid on the bike path once, which sucks, even if it was completely her mom's fault and I couldn't have done anything more to avoid it.)

Of course, Mass Ave is a bit intimidating, because there are so many cars. When I was a less skilled cyclist, I preferred the path for this reason. But now I commute on my bike and am just used to it :). And really, I love Mass Ave because it's so wide! As long as there's enough room for everyone I don't much care how many cars there are -- in fact, my current commute involves Mass Ave from Arlington to the South End, and I was just loving it today when the cars were not moving and I was gliding past :). The more experience you get on the roads around here the more confident you will feel...