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Re: subway info?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:46:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
> Another time I got a bit of a hint of how different driving is in Boston
> and other places was when I was driving a friend from Bolton into
> Boston. We were going in on Route 2, which used to end in a rotary. He
> commented that he wouldn't have had the guts to sail through that rotary
> as part of two lanes of traffic at 45mph. There isn't a rotary there
> anymore, when they put in the Alewife station at the end of the Red
> Line, they turned it into a 3-way intersection with lights, though when
> the Route 2 traffic has the green, I think it still can sail through at
> 45mph.
There's still a rotary near there, it's over the bridge and past the Fresh
Pond stuff. Route 2 doesn't end there, though, it goes all the way in to
Cambridge. Always has, as far as I know. It just ceases to be a highway-type
thing there, and becomes a street with lights and intersections (and
rotaries).
eric
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| (...) Without a lot of warning or signs to help you find your way when it changes direction at traffic lights and such, which it does a fair bit IIRC. One of the cardinal principles of Northeast driving (it's not confined to just the Boston area, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) True. I generally tend to think of it as ending there. I used to hate that next rotrary though. My summer job after graduating high school was at an office above the Fresh Pond shopping center, and you had to use that rotary to u-turn, problem (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Having learned to drive in Lexington, I've got some good Boston driving skills. I used to study "The Boston Driver's Handbook" for ideas :-) (well, not really, but I did actually once perform one of the advanced maneuvers - said maneuver being (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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