[SBC] Revised Tour de Somerville route
Ron Newman
rnewman at thecia.net
Sun Oct 7 21:40:10 EDT 2007
Doris, Enid, and I did a practice ride this morning, and decided to
make some small changes to the route.
1) At the end of Vernon Street, instead of proceeding straight onto
Pembroke, we'll turn right on Central St, cross the bridge, and then
turn right into the Cambridge Health Alliance parking lot, where we
can talk about the new park the city plans to build there next
year. (Hopefully we'll learn enough at Wednesday's meeting so that
we can say something intelligent about this.) Then we'll leave the
parking lot, turn left onto Central, recross the bridge, and turn
right onto Pembroke.
2) Enid and Doris thought that the end of the ride was too indirect,
and I was surprised to find ourselves going uphill on Powderhouse
Blvd. to Packard. So we cut out that part of the route. Instead
we'll exit the Powderhouse rotary onto *Broadway*, then turn left on
Simpson Ave, cross Holland St onto Jay St, left on Howard St, right
on Thorndike St, left on the Community Path (Linear Park) back to
Seven Hills Park.
(We could have picked any of Wallace St, Irving St, or Simpson Ave.
I chose Simpson because it's the flattest.)
Unless anyone wants further changes in the next day or two, I'll
prepare the final map for copying.
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