some good news, for a change

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

The Lowell Street Bridge has re-opened after eight years of being closed.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

My GPS will be grateful. It keeps trying to route me over it.

[ron_newman]

Did you ever try riding your motorcycle over it while it was closed (before construction started)? I bet you could have gotten around the barriers.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Nah, never did....

My bike is large, and heavy. (1200cc, 460-ish lbs.) If the barriers made you dump your bicycle, my motorcycle probably wouldn't have made it either. I'd've had a tough time explaining that one to the cops.

[ron_newman]

It wasn't the barriers on the old bridge that made me fall off my bike. It was the sharp turn and incline on the temporary pedestrian bridge, very possibly with some ice mixed in.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

erk. yeah, I've ridden through a road or two on a motorcycle that was theoretically closed to vehicle traffic before. Usually it was a combination of (1) being on back roads where the nearest detour meant going several miles out of the way and (2) I could get off the bike and survey the road closure on foot to decide whether to risk riding through. In one case I rode around a road washout that had left enough good pavement for a motorcycle, but not for a car.

No reason to do that with the Lowell St. bridge. Especially if it's going to attract attention from police and/or bystanders.