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ST214 wrote:This looks like it is worth a ride to one of these days.....Tricky bit: bike ride (over the bridge) vs train ride (under and for distance viewing). Until there's a better way from North Station to either Charlestown or Cambridge, it is "hard" to both ride the train and cross the bridge. Word is that the reason the shoreline path comes right up to (but ends at) the drawbridge (on both of the "upstream" banks) is that one day there will be an "outrigger" footpath on the drawbridge.
lkitch wrote:There is a good graphic showing the previously-planned pedestrian bridges (brown lines) atOh thank God...they're planning to put back the Leverett Circle/Science Park ramps. That'll probably recoup its own construction cost through elimination of the hours upon hours of police OT directing traffic at the crosswalks for Garden events and summer weekends on the Esplanade.
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Ron Newman wrote:I don't see any reason to put pedestrian bridges back into Leverett Circle. The crosswalks are just fine, similar to Charles Circle which doesn't miss its pedestrian bridges at all.As someone who crosses Leverett Circle twice a day, four times a week, I agree. The crosswalks are just fine, only getting iffy during some PM rush hours when the auto traffic gridlocks and cars block the crosswalks. Even then, you can cross through the stopped cars with little threat to life as long as you're careful.
Ron Newman wrote:I don't see any reason to put pedestrian bridges back into Leverett Circle. The crosswalks are just fine, similar to Charles Circle which doesn't miss its pedestrian bridges at all.Cops directing ped traffic in those crosswalks. Every summer weekend. Every Garden event.
