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The best part of these open spaces is
By anon
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 10:33am
NO BIKES ALLOWED!
emerald necklace
By anon
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:12am
has a heavily used SEPARATE bike paths (as in two parallel paths), and very wide multi-use paths that allow space for all users. I regularly ride that way and rarely encounter pedestrians on my commute.
Vast majority of cyclists would rather have their own paths that aren't shared with either cars or pedestrians. It's a pain (and it's expensive) to own a car in this city, and we're just trying to get places safely like everyone else.
Pretty sure they allow bikes on Southwest Corridor et al
By Jeff F
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:16am
I enjoy ped-only spaces too, but I count at least a dozen of the listed sites that have bike paths or similar.
Nice try though, sock puppet.
The best part of these open spaces is
By Fixed that for you
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:40am
NO CARS ALLOWED!
Missing some things
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 10:48am
For starters:
Stony Brook Reservation
Boston Nature Center
southwest corridor
By anon
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:07am
forest hills cemetery, millenium park...
These three are listed
By Ron Newman
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:15am
Southwest Corridor Park has its own chapter. Forest Hills Cemetery is listed under Roslindale, Millennium Park under West Roxbury.
Is the Neponset River Greenway....
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:49am
...developed enough to merit inclusion?
Pope John Paul II park is listed
By Ron Newman
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 12:12pm
which is part of the Neponset greenway.
Also missing Dorchester Park
By Nancy
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 12:06pm
It's a Frederick Law Olmsted designed park that is nestled between Adams Street/Cedar Grove and Dorchester Ave near St. Gregory's/Lower Mills.
I was there Saturday and it was beautiful -- except for the poison ivy.
Another significant omission
By Michael Kerpan
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 12:10pm
Agreed -- Dorchester Park really should be on any list.
i was involved in some of
By pierce
Tue, 09/17/2013 - 8:26am
i was involved in some of this, coordinated and ideated by asla operatives in DC and elsewhere but with much input (and the actual writing and photographing) by local designers. Believe me we are all proud and knowledgeable enough to put together an exhaustive catalog of every notable cultural landscape within any conceivable radius of boston, but here the focus was specifically on areas near mass transit and within a conventioneer's likely footprint (the annual asla convention is in boston this november)
You missed a big one, then
By Matthew
Tue, 09/17/2013 - 11:33am
The Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Adjacent to "B", "C" and "D" branches of the Green Line. Olmsted built Comm Ave to reach it. And yes, it's in Boston.
Whither Brighton?
By anon
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:40am
Green space going, going gone to Harvard, BC.......
Storrow Highway takes a lot of green space from Brighton
By anon
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 11:57am
The green space in Brighton went to Storrow Highway/Soldiers Field Road. It gets to 8 lanes at points plus cloverleafs and ramps. Reducing to 2 lanes each way would give Brighton back a lot of green space taken for suburban commuters before 90 was made, which is not needed since the MA pike runs parallel sometimes just feet away.
Where's the cloverleaf?
By Waquiot
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 5:53pm
Sorry, none there, and Storrow doesn't quite make it to Brighton (ends at the BU Bridge.) There's the T junction at Charlesgate, but most of the rest of the grade separated interchanges are those non-intrusive (unless you're a bus or truck) underpasses.
Aside from the ignorance in your comment, I've recently noticed that really nice stretch of parkland on the Charles beyond Harvard. It rocks, and considering its relative isolation, it seems pretty well used.
Which green space has gone to BC?
By issacg
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 12:30pm
Other than the westerly ("Lawrence"?) basin of the Reservoir, which was filled by the state something like 70+ years ago and only later became part of BC, which other public green spaces in Brighton have been taken by BC?
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