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In response to uproar, DCR cuts Southwest Corridor bike-lane work to just three days, starting Thursday
By adamg on Wed, 08/17/2022 - 11:29pm
After initially announcing two weeks of rolling closures of the Southwest Corridor bike path that was supposed to be an alternative to the shuttered Orange Line, DCR now says it only needs to do repair work for three days, starting on Thursday, Aug. 18.
Cyclists will be briefly shifted to an adjacent path on a rolling basis with minimal disruption to travel on the Southwest Corridor.
Separately, the Boston Cyclists Union is organizing a daily series of bicycle convoys for people who might want to ride bikes as an alternative to the soon-to-be-non-existent Orange Line but who are nervous about riding 'bove the streets of Boston.
Various group rides will be leaving from Orange Line Stations and the surrounding areas every weekday during the shutdown! These rides are all designed for beginner riders who are new to biking around urban areas. Feel free to get in touch with a ride leader before your ride, or just show up at the location ready to ride. Ride Leaders will likely be wearing a high-visibility vest or something orange/yellow.
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Thusday August 18th
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What a great idea and
What a great idea and generous offer from the BCU folks. It can be scary if you aren't used to riding so it's great people will be taught how to ride safely in the city (or as safe as we can considering the zero traffic enforcement we have).
"New To Urban Biking"
I don't know how I used to ride a bike all over the city as a kid and well up into my 20's without being coddled by two wheel wet nurses.
Well, you're just a natural born tough guy
Not everybody has your insouciance and devil-may-care joie de vivre, I guess.
Grow Up
Seriously, you are what 61-62? Time to grow up rather than put up a response like that.
Just ride your bike and deal with the deck life deals you.
What happened to Mr. Tough as Nails?
I don't even own a bike (I prefer walking), and I'm not going downtown much anymore these days, so none of this affects me personally, but having lived in Boston for a few years, I can see how some people might be a bit wary about bicycling on or even near city streets for the first time.
Why is it?
Why do you care about other people doing things you don’t want to do yourself?
That's nice. Everybody I know
That's nice. Everybody I know who rides a bike regularly in the city has been hit by a car at least once, but as long as you were able to tool around on your Schwinn in the '50s without incident then there's nothing to see here!
I know I'm ASKING for trouble by posting this
I've crashed plenty of times, but never been hit by a car.
(Although it ALMOST happened last week. I was riding into a fairly calm rotary and was looking right at the guy who was speeding in from another entrance and he JUST KEPT COMING. He almost hit me and never stopped or slowed down. I let out a trainload of profanity at him and followed him around the rotary to make sure he heard me. Are the rules for rotaries different for drivers from New Hampshire?)
Is there such a thing as a "calm" rotary?
Like one where there is less traffic but cars can go faster into and out of?
"Calm" is a relative term
I was just trying to show that it wasn't like Kosciusko Circle or that big one in JP by the Poor Clare Nuns. Kind of a "neighborhood" rotary. People normally see each other and yield to the person with the right-of-way.
Friendly reminder everyone
Johnathan is 100 percent not a troll and wants bike lanes and good infrastructure to encourage people to bike more. Super serious and by no means being inflammatory.
https://www.universalhub.com/2022/bicyclist-dies-after-being-doored-some...
He ain't paying rent
But there he is, squatting in your head.
Repairs underway this morning
They had part of the bike lane closed already around 8 am this morning. A cop was diverting everyone out onto the sidewalk that runs parallel to the bike lane. It’s always a mix of pedestrians and cyclists along the Southwest Corridor anyways, so not too different from the usual ride.
Meanwhile they were (finally!) patching up all the broken pavement along the bike path. (They’d marked it all off about two months ago.) Seems like it won’t be too much inconvenience, since they’re just closing one section at a time and it’s a quick detour.
I hope they will reschedule the rest of the repairs
to start right after the Orange Line reopens.