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With MCI Concord shutting down in June would there be any potential for MassDOT upgrading the Concord Rotary on a quicker timeline? Seems like with the prison no longer in use it would really simplify construction.

I agree. Didn't they not too long ago get rid of the overpasses over the rotary that connected to Mystic Ave? Seems like an awful idea to go ahead and add another overpass to that area again. The whole Rutherford/Sullivan area is a mess of 1950s highway engineering that needs to be blown up and...

Not sure which thread to post this in. Ended up catching one of the old Budd cars that used to be stored under 93 being moved through West Medford earlier today. I assume it’s going somewhere to finally be scrapped.

Agreed. The trail is in decent enough shape that I have no problem riding it on my Trek road bike with 700x28c tires on deep dish carbon wheels. If I want to go fast I'll stick to 62 but the trail is fine for most road bikes. Yeah it's more comfortable on a 32c tubeless setup like I have on my...

For someone like me it doesn't make a difference. I'll ride up it at 15 mph and not care about how drenched in sweat I get because at either end I'm taking a shower. But if you're using it to run errands or just generally get around I can see how the slope could be annoying. I think a majority...

I went down Beacon/Hampshire to work this morning and the milled pavement looked a lot worse than it actually was. I didn't really notice riding over it on 32c gravel tires. But I was also only going 10 mph behind a construction truck.

Majority of the painting is done for the new bike lanes in Medford on Mystic/South/Winthrop. Unfortunately I had to open a SeeClickFix ticket with the city because they painted the decals on backwards on the contraflow bike lane on South St. Mildly annoying but hopefully easy enough to fix.

I think in the planning document that section would become the new off ramp and the actual westbound road section would be shifted to the south. I can't really tell but it looks like they may be putting a signal at the crosswalk as well. So ideally cars would be slowing down for the turn and...

This is just an incredibly compacted Diverging Diamond interchange. They’re amazing for traffic flow but pretty awful for everything else. They make sense for connecting an interstate to a major arterial. I don’t really see the use case for using one between two state routes that both have...

I don't see how turning one big intersection into 5 smaller intersections in the same footprint and making it so traffic can't go east to north is better. Then again there's not really a great solution for this area since people are going to continue to use the Fellsway as a way to get around...

I've ridden it the past two days going to/from work just to see how it compares to my normal ride down Beacon/Hampshire. It's not as direct or as fast but it's more relaxing. The path is pretty narrow and there are some head scratchers like the curb cut at School St. being completely misaligned...

Just found the updated plans for the Winthrop Street resurfacing/restriping in Medford mentioned upthread - changes were made after the latest meeting. Looks like a bunch of parking got added back in and what were at least buffered bike lanes with flex posts are being turned into your standard...

The same kind of right turn lane already exists on the southbound portion of Boston Ave @ Mystic Valley Parkway not too far from here. People generally seem to understand it.

Yeah, that's why the overpass seems useless now but it was solely for accessing a bus stop on Route 2.

It's gonna at least double the time on the branch, probably won't make that big of a difference in the downtown tunnels since they don't seem to get above 25 ever anyway. I think I'm just gonna go back to cycling in unless the weather is truly hellish. It's the fastest way into the city anyway.