Jamaica Plain man dies in motorcycle crash on turnpike offramp in Allston

That ramp is pretty scary. It's a left-exit ramp, so you have to work your way over to the left lane to exit, which means getting into the Masshole high speed lane. Most traffic in this lane seems to want to go about 85, and if you are uncomfortable with that speed, too bad, a Masshole will gladly pass you on the right to get ahead of you and then cut in front of you to exit (to sit at the same light at the Doubletree, but whatever). When there were toll booths there, even with EZPass, you had to slow down. Now you go into the single lane on new pavement and then all of the sudden get launched with a dogleg onto the old, decaying overpass exit ramp. And it goes from one lane to twoish lanes, with no lane markings to speak of, so you don't really know where to aim, or whether the Masshole in front of you is planning to change "lanes" or not.

I'd imagine that a motorcyclist hitting that at 75 mph might indeed have an issue navigating that turn. It's not fun in a protective box at 50, and I'm usually the slow poke on that section getting passed by the Massholes going 80 on the Pike as I move to the left to exit. (Maybe he had an issue further down the ramp, but this seems like the likely location.)

In the long run, the Allston project will make this interchange a lot safer. In the short run, having MSP set up a speed operation along this section might at least help calm some of the drivers down. Put one Trooper with a speed gun on the Franklin Street footbridge and have him call in speeders to a trooper parked on the off ramp to issue citations.