BU becomes first university to get Street View coverage from the Google trike

Here is a picture of the Google Trike at WPI in Worcester this past September.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkeleher/3940536467/

from A Novel and Efficient Synthesis of Cadaverine, by S. A. Scoggin:
http://www.amazon.com/Novel-Efficient-Synthesis-Ca...

The main page of the Allston University website was built around a large picture of happy students strolling on a dense green lawn toward a chrome-and-glass building. Tree branches entered the frame from off camera, reinforcing the impression of a bucolic campus nestled in the rolling New England landscape. The photographer had contrived to exclude from the shot the Mass Pike, Storrow Drive, or any hint of the acres of concrete and asphalt upon which the remainder of Allston University students wore down their Doc Martins. Sharp-eyed surfers, perhaps native to the Boston area, might wonder exactly where this building waited for those chipper virtual students, and those enrolled at the University might believe that in their travels up and down the long urban campus they would certainly come across it eventually. But none ever did. Which in itself would incite no suspicion, for the campus of Allston University stretched across the whole of Allston. School buildings - added through the years, mostly by purchase and occasionally by construction - were interspersed with and indistinguishable from businesses and homes and apartment complexes. The chrome-and-glass building itself was nowhere among them. In fact, no one knew where it was. The web designer had copied it off a CD of stock images for an example, and the University had never given them one to substitute.

and other bicycle and pedestrian routes that are inaccessible to cars, such as the Southwest Corridor Park, Yerxa Road underpass in North Cambridge, Horn Pond Parkway in Woburn, etc.

I just wish they'd go back over the streets where they aimed the lens into the afternoon sun, flaring out the view of one side of the street.