The mission of this channel is to share real, authentic, real life bike rides in Boston with the audience that may be helpful and of interest. We can show you the optimal routes to take, safety precautions, various ways to use and get to the T MBTA and buses, and much more. We also plan to show you a lot of NATURE! Let's see what happens and have some fun.
Yup, this right here is the route I usually take, with one exception: I prefer to turn on Harrison than on Washington. No busses, no delivery vehicles, bit less traffic. The last stretch right before Traveler is all pothole, though. That overpass is steeper than it looks!
And you're right about Berkeley and a bike lane: it IS a no-brainer for a connection with the 4th St. lane. But the Back Bay NIMBYs hated the proposal because of parking. Making Dartmouth a 2-way lane is a nice consolation prize, though
thanks for checking us out. i think there the green bike lane markings were added after "bus only" markings and it should be updated to whatever it actually is and clarified
can understand your approach. this was filmed a while ago so not sure i recall EXACTLY the situation there waiting for the light. as much as i ride it evens out anyways, some lights are welcome breaks i tend to ride for HIIT exercise a lot, some take a while but it's very logical why (rox crossing) and some feel a bit like the lights aren't entirely precisely logical. either way, Boston Bike plays it safe
hey thanks for checking us out. where? was riding on it last night up to my ruggles/huskies zone and not sure i noticed anything. can tell you that the little band-aids aside the whole SWC should be paved liked the good stuff at Millennium and get colors/stripes/lines
@@BostonBike Hey, cool channel capturing all The bike infra in the metro area. I noticed this morning between Stony Brook all the way down to Roxbury Crossing, maybe to Ruggles. Didn’t see it yesterday.
That is a loooooong light. I'm surprised people don't just head on through when there are no cars around. Given the fairly light traffic (in this video, at least) seems like a 4-way stop would be sufficient. Or was this during a low traffic time?
thank you for checking us out. there are some real long waits and yes cyclists and scooters and pedestrians blow them off all the time. we see a close call somewhere almost every time we ride so we follow all the traffic signals. there should be more cycling lights and intersections cleaned up for sure. this is in cambridge which generally is better than boston in terms of traffic signals and bike lanes. so in a nutshell, yes some seem like a real long time but we know from experience the lights are as such for a reason. also, learned how to edit out the dead space waiting in the videos and this one here was from 2023 i believe🚴🏻♂️
you are brave, boston traffic is freakin nuts and insane. boston is over priced and over rated in my opinion. every time I drive into boston I ask "why would people put up with super expensive realestate and this bs?"
Thanks for checking us out. Definitely need road and street improvements, more bike lanes, and more use of and better public transportation. I hear ya but there’s other options. I rarely drive I walk and cycle a lot and use mainly the orange and green lines and a few different buses.
I've biked this route a bit but walked it a ton- the bike lane in the last block of longwood in your video is blocked with parked cars just about every time I've seen it :( The route gets so much ridership, it's a shame it isn't safer.
thanks for checking us out. very good point and this video wasn't at the busiest times though i forgot which day of the week it was recorded. yes the cars and other vehicles jam it up quite a bit most of the time that longwood/brookline intersection and there is a bus stop there.
You are absolutely correct pagan. Now the trick is remembering exactly when each video was made and when I “repaired” it. Getting zip ties and this one I think was recorded a few weeks back. No noise on my Friday ride and hoping to see how the bike is acting later today
Yes. We need a couple new ones built I prefer a spider approach like the one that connects to Charles/MGH. Give us a few easy on and off ramps back bay and especially mass ave harvard bridge and of course there is a short on the channel page talking about the new north station bridge needed
thank you and thanks for checking us out. actually, funny you noticed because like a dummy i just noticed one of the break cables/wires was indeed rubbing against the tire lower left side. i yanked it towards the front to tighten it and used an old shoe string to tighten the cable to the bike frame - hopefully it holds up. me finally noticing this was after this video for sure it was just a couple days ago
Building bike lanes is great, but it's going to take a long time to change the culture of motorists and cyclists and pedestrians to make it safer for everyone. Licensing cyclists might help although everyone hates that idea except pedestrians who have been hit. (I know I've posted this comment before, but it bears repeating. )
Yes, it's tricky. Boston Bike is in favor of more and more not just bike lanes but permanent bus lanes, MASSIVE street improvements, and getting the mopeds off the streets and bike lanes WAY, WAY before demanding the cyclists add more gubamint red tape to their own lives. Good valid points you make no doubt. There are dangerous cycling behaviors and dangerous driving behaviors and the pedestrians can get better as well (this is from someone walking 20k steps/day btw).
Arlington/Stuart when I'm at that intersection to my immediate right (not shown) that is a place one might want to consider for a nice meal and experience (Davio's). think that castle does food/events never actually been in there
There is something in the works! The dead end passage along the B&M draw bridge to North Point will get connected when a replacement draw bridge! Now we don’t know if that will be the first of second replacement yet. Also we are trying to open up a better passage across the Gilmore corridor space. The goal,is to create an independent cycle bridge from the Austin St lots across to Morgan Ave in Cambridge so Charlestown has a better pathway into Cambridge. Keep in mind Rutherford Ave will have a cycle track on its north side and the goal is to offer access from it as well so both the Everett multi-use bridge into Draw Seven park as well as Somerville have a clean shot into both Boston Core and Cambridge! We still have one piece still being worked on passage across Alford St this will either be a fly over (not what I would want) or an under bridge passage. There is a few technical issues on that with the current bridge, but the bridge maybe getting replaced! As that pesky thing called climate change is raising the sea level! So the Alford St bridge might be getting a rebuild. As long as it doesn’t flood us with more traffic and is safer for both people and bikers!
Good news very soon!! But the harbor side of the bridge is missing the added connections down to the river (HarborWalk) on both sides so the larger quantity of walkers (Freedom Trail) have safer passage down from Hull St to the HarborWalk across the bridge and then down via Charles River Ave/RiverWalk onward to the Navy Yard and the USS Constitution.
The path out to Lexington has stop signs for those (cyclists) on the path, but at every single intersection, the Massholes on the crossing roads insist on stopping and waiting for the vehicles with the stop signs. Massholes operate by non-existent rules of the road and refuse to obey the real rules. I've also seen idiots on bicycles who go into trances and drift into the paths of those on the other side of the path. I was on a group ride with one and, after he ran somebody off the other side of the path (and heard lots of swearing), I asked him what happened, and he said he had no recollection of it A cycling advocate (John Allen? McAllen? -Something like that.) spent a lot of time and effort getting the RMV to fix all of the mistakes in the Mass. driving manual that apparently resulted from the author(s) being incapable of getting it through their thick skulls that bicycles are vehicles. [Lots of phrasing like "...bicycles and other pedestrians..."; "...vehicles and bicycles..."] Police departments in Mass. apparently STILL teach kids to ride on the wrong side of the road. [All of the adults I've ever asked insist that bicycles should be on the left.] Most states, when considering the rules for bicycles on sidewalks, differentiate between large people on large bikes and small people (kids) on lightweight (e.g., PlaySkool) bikes and trikes. The large ones would kill pedestrians if they were to ride on the sidewalk and are fine on the road (approx. same speed; easily visible; if on the correct side, closing speed is low). Little ones are no harm to pedestrians and are too low to be seen on the road. Massachusetts, of course, gets it completely wrong and distinguishes between sidewalks in built-up areas and sidewalks in the sticks. They did something similar with tinted windows on cars. Police don't like extreme tinting (because there might be somebody with a gun inside the car when they pull somebody over). So, sane states have a limit on the amount of tinting. [Glass must pass x% of visible light.] Mass, of course, gets it wrong and bans AFTERMARKET tinting. [I assume that the other states have test jigs similar to the ones that they used to have for adjusting the aim of sealed-beam headlights (which Mass. also didn't use, opting for the inaccurate method of drawing lines on a board)... I've done Cycling the Erie Canal three times (and plan to do it some more). It's well-designed, and the organized ride is well run. ["Just like New York"]. I avoid paths in Mass. because everything having anything to do with transportation is done so incompetently.
make a lot of relevant points Larry. Absolutely with you on the drifting . . . . . all the time on SW Corridor I see a blue biker riding and staring at the phone drifting in and out. Thanks for checking us out.
Larry not sure if you have seen our Safe Zones, you might enjoy those spaces. Also Malcolm X Park, Jamaica Pond, and Millennium Park (a new safe Zone???) give you a true space at least separated from vehicles but of course there are other cyclists and the scooters of course.
@@BostonBike Unless Mass. eliminates all grade crossings, cyclists can't go a decent distance without having to deal with the issue of Massholes who don't know the rules of the road. As far as I can tell, the state started teaching NEW drivers the rules in the late 1980s, so young drivers are much better than older ones. [As things stand now, we'll have to wait for all of the old drivers to die off before Mass. stops being an outlier (accident rate 80% higher than the other 49 states, which are all about the same). In New York, when they changed a rule, they would put ads. on TV to make sure that ALL drivers (well, those with a TV) would be made aware. Mass. eliminated the three-people-through-a-stop-sign rule in 1981, but never publicized it, and there are STILL drivers who think it's still in effect (43 years later). I've noticed that Massholes seem to be unable to recognize the lines on the roads. In college, I remember learning about (cruel?) experiments on cats in which kittens are raised with restricted views in which they could see only vertical stripes. When released, they could "see" just fine, but their visual cortexes couldn't recognize anything except vertical stripes. I suspect something similar happened to Massholes. They can "see" the lines on the roads, but they don't recognize them as having any significance. I'd like to see some experiments on Massholes.
Agreed. SW Corridor Park is filled with these issues though there was some slight improvements added by the city to put a band-aid on it. Esplanade has these and Lederman Park as you note it gets very, very bumpy in that section
Hey man, great content! Love that the segments are relatively condensed, and my wife loves using your videos to get a sense of where she feels comfortable biking and what to expect. Really appreciate it!
Some T stations have the bike storage yes, but not all. Generally bigger ones like Back Bay. This is also my backup bathroom option if/when my known portables are gone/locked. If you wanna ride for a little bit bathrooms are very helpful
Did this again early Friday evening 8/30, and wow the wind was brutal I could feel it coming might have been the toughest Longfellow in recent memory, sadly I even slowed down a bit approaching the crest 🥵👊🏼
There are some real odd ones sprinkled all over. Tremont is a legit and credible way out of downtown but that’s only one general direction out. Every route in encounters challenges
@@BostonBike I ride the Tremont street lanes a lot; I spoke with a city employee this summer that told me they're planning to extend them further north for a better connection with Stuart street.
@@LucasGruner Hi Lucas thanks for that info. I think what you describe plus making Tremont a 2 way lane between Boylston and Govt Center AND improving the surface on Cambridge would at least give kind of a North/South route in and out that has credible lanes.
