The way points of this bicycle route:
Just west of Coolidge Corner
Narrow with parked cars. Urban. Avoid the Door Zone and be alert.
This light cycle is short so go just when the light turns green. The crossing is wide here and it takes a while. Cross B-Line trolley tracks. Look out for turning cars crossing your path.
Narrow with parked cars. Avoid the Door Zone!
Narrow street
Cross Market Street, a main drag.
RIGHT onto Parsons at light downhill
Narrow with parked cars, but you can go fast, so take the lane.
Narrow with parked cars, but you can go fast, so take the lane.
There's a traffic light just ahead.
You're going to rock down to Electric Avenue. But you've got to take it higher.
Under the Mass. Pike and the old B&A RR mainline (now MBTA, CSX, and Amtrak). By the way, you're coming up to a traffic light.
While waiting at this light, prepare for your crossing! This looks scary, but you have places to stop out of the way of traffic, if you need to. Obey the lights and position yourself in the lane for your destination and you're good to go! Watch for traffic coming from your right on Soldier's Field Road when you bear left in the curve and then cross lanes to go to the right.
Look to your right! Stop at this island to your right if you need to, and wait for a gap in traffic.
Move to the right side of the road, and then get ready to take a right to climb up onto the bridge spanning the Charles River.
RIGHT onto North Beacon. The right lane is right-turn-only. Check for traffic behind you, and move to the leftmost part of the right lane now. Then go straight through as you head down off the bridge.
Hey! I said to move over to your left and take the lane. That car turning onto Charles River Road in the right lane is going to cut you off! These are Boston drivers, pallie!
Straight through at the upcoming light. The Watertown Arsenal complex is to your right. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! Their little nuclear reactor is gone now.
Watertown is the home of Seven Cycles (125 Walnut Street) just north of you now.
RIGHT turn onto Irving Street.
You have to jog right to go across onto Palfrey Street. And there's a traffic light.
RIGHT on Church Street to avoid major hill on Palfrey
Prepare to turn left.
HARD LEFT onto Orchard Street when you reach Common Street.
RIGHT onto Waverly Avenue.
STRAIGHT across Belmont Street at light. Note: This is the Watertown side of the town line! Belmont is a dry town, so if you want to buy a six-pack or some wine, take a right and go about a quarter-mile to the Hardy Spa packie at Hardy Ave. Last chance! You know... you really should have thought of this back in Brookline, at that liquor store and grocery near Summit Ave. But then again, you won't have to carry it very far from here.
RIGHT onto Beech Street at the flashing yellow light
4-way STOP! Isn't this road annoyingly narrow with the street parking?
STRAIGHT across Trapelo Road staying on Beech. If you go left here, Belmont Wheelworks is up a bit on your left on Trapelo Road (at the corner of White Street).
LEFT on Harris!
STRAIGHT crossing Waverly Street. It's busy sometimes and people drive a little too fast here, so stop and look both ways.
Pearl Street!
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Tagged with: Commute, Onroad, Intermediate, Urban
