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Who Says You Can’t Get There From Here?
Written by nicklebones on Apr 21Apropos of nothing really, just some food for thought next time you get lost on the road…
Some time ago, I was meeting up with a friend who instructed me to take the 57 bus to the stop at the corner of Tremont and Park. “That’s easy,” I thought to myself. “Why take the bus at all, when the subway goes straight there?” Or, I could even bike to the Common up Cambridge Street by MGH, or head up Washington Street through Downtown Crossing from the South.
I never got there.
Yup, turns out there is a Park Street and a Tremont Street — and they intersect — in Newton. And to get there? The 57 bus even goes down Cambridge Street. In Allston. And Washington Street. In Brighton. Eep!
Whether it was a practical joke played by our forebears or just lack of communication across town borders (no…make that even within town borders themselves, sometimes), the same street names seem to pop up willy-nilly all across the region.
Soooo… I thought it might be interesting to see if I could plot a route through greater Boston in which one could bike entirely on a limited “set” of streets, even if those streets were in completely separate areas. Although I did have to “cheat” a bit here and there, I did amaze myself by coming up with a 31.3-mile route through Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville and Newton… using only streets named Park, Tremont, Washington, Cambridge, Beacon, Harvard, Brookline, and Boylston.
How to ride 31.3 miles on 8 streets... (click for detailed map)
Let’s begin the madness in the bowels of Newton… Read more »
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