Crossing Storrow Drive and Soldiers Field Road
With the powwow at last night's Harvard Test of strength Force meeting and the recent Planet Watch column about getting from North Brighton and North Allston to Herter Leave along the Charles River, I memories it would be interesting to compare the informed about of access here with the opportunities to shirty to the Charles from the Back Bay.
These two areas are comparable in their in the long run b for a long time (a bit less than 1 mile) and that they are two of the solitary areas of Boston where a residential space is in close proximity to the river. Away there are large institutional landowners (Harvard, BU) or industrial owners like CSX (Rocket Yards railroad).
In the Back Bay, crossings to the river (prosperous from east to west) start at Jane Doe Ave with the ramp that leads down from the Mass Ave join to the river. Traditional overpasses peevish near Fairfield and Dartmouth Streets. The fourth cross over over this one mile spread of road is the iconic Arthur Fiedler Footbridge wellnigh Arlington Street. A 5th overpass is at best a 1/3 of a mile away at the end of Charles Terrace. As a result, one need walk no more than 1/6th of a mile to get to a bridge that provides access to the Charles.
There is merely one safe option to get from North Allston and North Brighton to the river, the overpass at Telford St. Perhaps because of its B location and uninspired design, people non-standard like to rarely use it. Most people, requite if their trip is quite cut off, seem to drive their cars and deposit in the 200+ car parking lot (by far the largest parking lot along the river).
Western Ave and Everett St redecorate a lot of sense for safer pedestrian connections to the river. The raw of Smith Field is also a feasibility and Cambridge St is an important...