Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

I think the ironically named Pleasant/Center Street (route 60) in Malden has to be one of the worst streets in the area. It is absolutely brutal.
 
Suffolk 83 said:
Maybe we live in alternate realities. Have you ever been down Highland ave?
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Admittedly I don’t take it very much. I’m either traveling perpendicular to or parallel to Highland. Poking around on Google, though, it doesn’t look worse than Main Street in Medford south of Medford Square.
 
Blackbird said:
Admittedly I don’t take it very much. I’m either traveling perpendicular to or parallel to Highland. Poking around on Google, though, it doesn’t look worse than Main Street in Medford south of Medford Square.
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The area by the high school is in complete shambles, but as somebody else mentioned that is likely where they are repaving. The stretch between Davis Square and City Hall is fine, certainly good enough from an urban standpoint.
 
DZH22 said:
The area by the high school is in complete shambles, but as somebody else mentioned that is likely where they are repaving. The stretch between Davis Square and City Hall is fine, certainly good enough from an urban standpoint.
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Yup, definitely don’t go there very often. In response, I’d nominate the intersection of Main Street and Medford Street by Tufts pool as being really bad.

The whole bike ride from Magoun to my house is sketchy (I get on the community path at Lowell street) but that intersection is probably the worst of it.
 
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sm89 said:
AND people turning right onto Albany love to swing into the bike lane (for unclear reasons since they can certainly make the turn without doing that).
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if you live in Dorchester I understand you gotta do what you gotta do but I wouldnt be biking thru that area regardless of vehicular traffic
 
sm89 said:
AND people turning right onto Albany love to swing into the bike lane (for unclear reasons since they can certainly make the turn without doing that).
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Massachusetts drivers are very sloppy drivers. You would get ticketed in California for the random way most Massachusetts drivers turn in intersections (wide swings, cutting corners, infringing on other travel or bike lanes....)
 
I'm having a hard time finding anything "lyrikal" about these stumpy beige habitats for apparently 12-foot-tall humanoids.
 
I realize they'll have a station entrance on that side of the street, but if the GL is NOW, then most likely YOU HAVE ALREADY MISSED IT, and YOU MIGHT INJURE YOURSELF OR OTHERS RUNNING TO CATCH IT.

Those signs should cut out at about 2 minutes, assuming that the trains arrive when the signs says they will (an iffy proposition to be sure).
 
HelloBostonHi said:
Genuine question, how are they embedding lighting in solid granite curbing, I've never seen that before. Like that means drilling 18" deep holes in 6" wide granite without cracking it, and having to run conduit underneath the curb stone? I fully expect those lights to fail after a couple winters but I'm impressed with the effort.
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I seem to remember they had lighting similar to this lining the Vassar St bike lanes in Cambridge, like almost 20 years ago. I don't think they lasted long. But i remember them looking cool and futuristic.

I am a little nervous about that bike lane though, I know there's a lot of fencing there that will give way to more pedestrian space, but I feel like there's going to be a lot of conflict there. I hope I'm proven wrong.
 
Camberville said:
I am a little nervous about that bike lane though, I know there's a lot of fencing there that will give way to more pedestrian space, but I feel like there's going to be a lot of conflict there. I hope I'm proven wrong.
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I'm reserving judgement on that. The closest analog in the neighborhood is across the street from the CS Plaza. Yes, there are pedestrians wandering on to the bike path, mostly near the bus stop and crosswalks. But overall, there aren't too many, and it's much less problematic to deal with such pedestrians than it is with cars pulling in and out of the bike lane when it's at street level.
 
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