{"items": [{"author": "Adam", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/456215434400870?comment_id=456302791058801", "anchor": "fb-456302791058801", "service": "fb", "text": "Nice work!", "timestamp": "1347475499"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/456215434400870?comment_id=456316857724061", "anchor": "fb-456316857724061", "service": "fb", "text": "@Rose: true; route 16 is scary even in a car. But signs like this worry me because I'm afraid they may expand to more places.
(I have biked on route 16: coming home from BBN after working late; the roads were all clear and I got home in about half the usual time.)", "timestamp": "1347478506"}, {"author": "Nicolas", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/105722903272192091597", "anchor": "gp-1347480142152", "service": "gp", "text": "I've biked 16 a few times, primarily because the bike path along there is in laughable condition. (And at one point just suddenly dead-ended at that one stadium.)", "timestamp": 1347480142}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1347482750552", "service": "gp", "text": "@Nicolas\n\u00a0When did you last ride the path? \u00a0They've recently redone it north of Alewife.", "timestamp": 1347482750}, {"author": "Nicolas", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/105722903272192091597", "anchor": "gp-1347484651601", "service": "gp", "text": "Hmm. Not sure. At least two years though.", "timestamp": 1347484651}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1347502298532", "service": "gp", "text": "I think the new path was just finished this spring.", "timestamp": 1347502298}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1347505999039", "service": "gp", "text": "The new path is new, and I've heard it's fantastic, but haven't ridden it.\n
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\nI think the signs went up about when it opened, and I assume that their intent was to steer bike traffic onto it, which is not unreasonable. Right of way notwithstanding, that stretch of Rt 16 is not at all safe for bikes, unless they take the full lane, which would have a crushingly disruptive effect on traffic if it were significantly used by bikes. I very much believe that bikes have a right to use the road, but there just isn't enough road there. (So maybe \"well, sucks to be a car, then\" is the right answer, but it would \nsuck\n.)\n
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\nConversely, that stretch may be the road with the highest ratio of \"times I've been on it\" to \"times I've seen bikes on it\". Seldom if ever. Which you could take to mean \"no one wants to ride bikes there anyway, so who cares if they're banned\", or \"...so why bother banning them\". But in fact it's a terrible dangerous place to ride, signs or no.\n
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\n(I do applaud your efforts to make sure bikes don't get screwed over, contrary to the law, FWIW. I just think this particular case is legitimately unusual.)", "timestamp": 1347505999}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103775592027106438640", "anchor": "gp-1347630623616", "service": "gp", "text": "I have ridden the new path, and it is awesome. I think what it really needs is a sign simply noting the existence of the bike path.", "timestamp": 1347630623}]}