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Subject: 
Re: subway info?
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:53:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Eric Joslin writes:

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).

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, but it's strongest there) is:

"if you know where you are going, what do you need signs for? If you don't
know where you are going, you have no business trying, stay the heck away."

It must really annoy locals when people with Hertz NeverLost don't get lost.

++Lar



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  Re: subway info?
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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