[*BCM*] A Response

[Lee Peters]

Please realize as you throw out ideas, that not all places are nice to 
ride.  Boston suffers from some really 
boring/industrial/exposed/uninhabited streets.  One problem with going 
to JP for example is South Huntington.  It is mostly barren of people, 
and not as fun to ride.   Newbury Street, even though we have been there 
and done that, it has many desirable qualities that the Mass 
enjoys---Scenery, people, & enclosure.

Have any of you experienced the South Bay Shopping Center? Or the area 
called Brighton Mills?  It is a crime that the BRA allowed developers to 
do this to us.  They seem to be allowing the Seaport District to go in 
this direction too.  That Greenway?---It will be surrounded by many 
lanes of speeding cars.  I am often shocked at the wonderful/horrible 
examples of urbanism all in the same city.


lungfish wrote:

>There is a whole 1/3 of the city that isn't even on most boston metro
>maps- westie, rozzie, parts of jp, hyde park, dorchester, parts of
>southie.  It seems like the mass mostly neglects those areas. 
>considering that we ride for about 3 hours at about 5miles and hour, it
>would be totally reasonable to just jut off in a random (or not so
>random direction) at some point.  I think we stay towards downtown and
>cambridge because that's where a lot of people live, and many people
>leading either don't want to stray to far from home, lead others too far
>from home, or just explore unexplored territory.  Why not hit castle
>island next month? Or eastie (if accessable)? Or go down hyde park ave?
>Or someone mentioned the L street bike path via mass ave to andrew
>square?  These parts both don't see critical mass much (so we should
>spread awareness to those areas, right?) and aren't totally congested
>like, say, kenmore during a sox game.
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>I propose a strong push to go where few massers have gone before.
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