Do you see any potential solution to make East Boston accessible by bike without having to route through Charlestown/Everett/Chelsea?
To elaborate, while East Boston has been seeing some development lately it's still not viewed as a desirable neighborhood despite low rent, amazing food and short commute via train to downtown.
The feeling I get from people is that it just seems too isolated from the rest of the city. Many people enjoy walking or biking to their destinations and like to avoid the T or cabs which is impossible from East Boston. It's also prohibitively expensive to get back out there at night if you don't make the last MBTA ride and many cabs won't even take the fare.
I feel like better development of bike lanes in the neighborhood, pedestrian access to downtown and late night T service would really open the area up.
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Re-posting from the /r/boston thread:
Do you see any potential solution to make East Boston accessible by bike without having to route through Charlestown/Everett/Chelsea?
To elaborate, while East Boston has been seeing some development lately it's still not viewed as a desirable neighborhood despite low rent, amazing food and short commute via train to downtown. The feeling I get from people is that it just seems too isolated from the rest of the city. Many people enjoy walking or biking to their destinations and like to avoid the T or cabs which is impossible from East Boston. It's also prohibitively expensive to get back out there at night if you don't make the last MBTA ride and many cabs won't even take the fare. I feel like better development of bike lanes in the neighborhood, pedestrian access to downtown and late night T service would really open the area up.
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