At first glance, John's photo of a cab stuck in the snow in East Boston this morning seems to paint a pretty awful picture of the sad state of snow plowing in East Boston.
Until you realize that the cab is not stuck on an actual road, but on the East Boston Greenway, which is a walking and bicycling path on what used to be the right of way for a train line.
Earlier:
Jesus, some New Yorker is a real moron.
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I don't know the neighborhood
By Scratchie
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 8:57am
I don't know the neighborhood, but if the street looks the same as the greenway, how's he supposed to tell? Don't bike paths usually have pylons or something to prevent this very occurrence?
If you aren't sure something
By Kinopio
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:43am
If you aren't sure something is a street or not don't turn on to it. Simple as that.
Also its easy to tell what is a street and what is a sidewalk or bike path: the streets are actually clear of snow because we made the stupid decision to be a car culture even in the middle of a crowded city.
LOL
By Scratchie
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:46am
Good one. I thought you were serious there for a minute.
In this case
By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:55am
It kind of is.
re: LOL
By Steeve
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:42am
I walk past that area each day on the way to work, and while the sidewalks are iffy, the streets are fine. You have to be an absolute moron to end up on the Greenway during daylight. Like they really, really went out of their way to end up there. Even the worst of the cleaned-up streets in the area don't have a foot of snow on them. Nor are they in an old train bed with fences around it, but I digress.
I think that's by the Gumball Factory, and I think they'd have to enter way down on Marginal Street, which is kind of obviously not an entrance. They need to keep that small amount of clearance for when they have park service, Massport, BDP, etc., occasionally drive down the path. I've never heard of a passenger vehicle accidentally make its way down there when the lack of snow makes it less obvious.
Looks like this path *was* plowed
By Ron Newman
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 2:09pm
but then more snow fell on it. It obviously has a lot less snow than the grass on either side of it.
Somerville has done a good job plowing its part of the Community Path, just as if it were a street.
Non-vehicle paths used to have bollards
By roadman
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:47am
where they intersect streets. However, the CIty has been removing them over time because some people have arbitrarily decided they
are bad because they force cyclists to actually stop and dismountcause more issues for path users than the benefits they provide.Um, no
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:05am
They removed them because they make it difficult for patrol vehicles, strollers, tricycles, garbage trucks, emergency vehicles, maintenance vehicles and bike trailers to access the paths.
But do persist in your paranoid fantasies. They are amusing.
Bollards also prevent the
By DTP
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:07am
Bollards also prevent the small plows from getting on paths, so they're usually removed in the winter anyway.
Dismounting would help no one
By jeffkinson
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:11am
Requiring cyclists to dismount at every intersection on a busy urban path would be a terrible policy. It takes much longer than just carefully biking through at walking speed, so in addition to being a huge nuisance to cyclists (and to pedestrians who have to walk around dismounting cyclists), it would cause unnecessary delays to drivers waiting to cross.
BTW thanks for correcting yourself. That's a level of class you don't often see on the internet.
Subaru cabs > Camry cabs
By anon
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:39am
Subaru cabs > Camry cabs
For those not familiar with this area
By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:57am
There's only one possible way this car entered that path in that direction, and it's pretty obvious that it's a park. I'm actually more surprised the entrance was cleared wide enough for a car to even get in.
Cabbie: Excuse me sir, How do
By Will
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:07am
Cabbie: Excuse me sir, How do you get to the tunnel from here?
Guido: How you doin, ah , you bang a right first, then left on bremen street greenway keep going straight until you see a factory.
Cabbie: Thank you very much sir.
Guido: You welcome, you Moron.
Guido?
By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:18am
Really man?
Also, when's the last time you were in East Boston, 1975?
2/10
By Kaz
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 3:33pm
You would have scored higher, but not enough references to Dunkies.
yeah
By cybah
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:32am
I was gonna say.. its pretty hard to get ON to that path from street level because that path is a rail trail and has underpasses it uses. You can only get on from street level one or two places in Eastie, the rest are connecting paths (small ones)
Street View
By apkmax
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:36am
Street View of the entrance the cab must have used: http://goo.gl/maps/5EByc
TIL there is an old Conrail
By DTP
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:41am
TIL there is an old Conrail caboose sitting in East Boston.
Great park
By jeffkinson
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:22am
I love the views along the greenway. You get to see the caboose, bike through Bremen St park, watch the always-busy soccer fields, and see cool art installations near Airport station. And soon, you'll be able to bike all the way to Constitution Beach!
I'd spend a lot more time there if only there were a good way to get to East Boston by bike...
That's the one I was thinking
By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:49am
and still stand by the fact that I'm surprised it was clear enough for a car to fit in.
I guess this way is technically possible too, but even more unlikely, and you'd have to be an even bigger idiot.
I've noticed in the last
By TVC
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 9:59am
I've noticed in the last couple of days , I've seen a handful of cabs from logan airport driving down Bennington street from Day Square navigating towards Sumner Tunnel, obviously these cabs are once again using East Boston's surface streets, it's the 1970's all over again.
That's unpossible: Taxi
By anon
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:24am
That's unpossible: Taxi drivers in Boston are PROFESSIONALS who are REGULATED by the city.
He might have the right idea...
By cfp
Wed, 02/04/2015 - 3:26pm
It's the only "street" in Boston with no traffic.
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