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Feb 17, 2007 17:41

Well, that was a waste of a lot of effort! Who's the clever concom who decided it didn't matter if the Boston Boat Show was being held adjacent to Boskone, and of course there would still be parking? I started to get a bad feeling as I came down 93 on the tunnel approach, and the e-billboard said "Convention event use Exit 23" because I was ( Read more... )

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cvirtue February 17 2007, 23:38:14 UTC

I suppose they might have not even paid attention, presuming that their interested populations were likely to be worlds apart -- even if the cars were not going to be.

Bummer on your behalf.

elizabear February 17 2007, 23:41:50 UTC

dsrtao and metahacker took the T from Alewife.

elizabear February 18 2007, 02:11:34 UTC

Or rather they were going to, but ended up in the $27 hotel parking instead. They arrived at ~11am.

msmemory February 18 2007, 02:50:59 UTC

That had been my plan, to heck with the money. Oh well, we'll see about next year.

jenwrites February 18 2007, 02:06:43 UTC

Oh jeez. When did you try to go in? Melissa, Andy, and I left the house at 9:00 and didn't have trouble parking in the hotel garage. But it was pretty packed when we tried to leave. People had invented parking, so to get out of my perfectly legal spot, I had to do a 9-point turn.

msmemory February 18 2007, 02:46:19 UTC

I was in the neighborhood between 12 and 1. Shows me: I shoulda gotten up on time, then I'd have been all right.

oakleaf_mirror February 18 2007, 13:01:21 UTC

Sorry you missed the Con. One wonders, though, at a brand new convention and expo centre that has so little parking.

FWIW, the walk from the WTC stop on the Silver Line is short and obvious, once you leave the station by the correct door (upstairs).