ride all past the intersection and make the next right, a cloverleaf will lead you on a 270 degree turn and put you in front of a stop light facing the BU bridge.
it's crazy, but welcome to Boston. If it's any consolation, the drivers have to do same thing; and the BU bridge crossing is probably one of the more difficult/non-intuitive ones.
I think that a city streets orientation tour would be an awesome thing to provide for, like, freshman orientation at many area universities, but it is sadly non-existent. The upcoming midnight architecture ride might be a good time to tour the city and pick people's ideas of how to negotiate various 'nuanced' intersections.
nah, dude, I mean this midnight ride (which is on this Saturday, actually) 30ish mile ride through Boston and the inner suburbs. Check this site for past pictures.
That intersection has a jug-handle left. To get on the BU Bridge from Comm Ave. eastbound, make a right turn onto Essex, stay left (if you find yourself in the Fens, you didn't stay left enough), go around the jug-handle, cross the green line tracks so you're on Comm Ave. westbound, and then turn right onto the bridge.
This has the added advantage that you get to cross the B-line tracks at a roughly 90° angle, which probably makes up in un-skinned knees for the extra furlong you'll travel.
Yep, what the others said. There are places where a bicyclist has to make a left turn that would be illegal for cars, but this isn't one of them. Use the jughandle.
Also, for the most part, residential one-way streets are one-way only because they are not wide enough for two cars to pass each other in opposite directions. You are much narrower than a car, so you can ride against the one-way traffic, provided you do so cautiously. If you do it at night, be sure to use a headlight.
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it's crazy, but welcome to Boston. If it's any consolation, the drivers have to do same thing; and the BU bridge crossing is probably one of the more difficult/non-intuitive ones.
I think that a city streets orientation tour would be an awesome thing to provide for, like, freshman orientation at many area universities, but it is sadly non-existent. The upcoming midnight architecture ride might be a good time to tour the city and pick people's ideas of how to negotiate various 'nuanced' intersections.
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Is this the architecture ride you're talking about? $60 is a bit much.
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This has the added advantage that you get to cross the B-line tracks at a roughly 90° angle, which probably makes up in un-skinned knees for the extra furlong you'll travel.
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