{"items": [{"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/346098972145222?comment_id=346111352143984", "anchor": "fb-346111352143984", "service": "fb", "text": "I believe Rt 16 meets the requirements for a limited access highway, at least in sections, and the one you show is one of those sections.", "timestamp": "1346077340"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/346098972145222?comment_id=346126598809126", "anchor": "fb-346126598809126", "service": "fb", "text": "@Michael: the section with the sign is RT16 east-bound at Mass Ave. http://goo.gl/maps/8OmX0 is an aerial view, showing driveways. MA law seems to define \"limited access\" as \"a highway over which the easement of access in favor of abutting land exists only at such points and in such manner as is designated in the order of laying out. \" [1]<br><br>[1] http://www.malegislature.gov/.../Titl.../Chapter81/Section7c", "timestamp": "1346079636"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/346098972145222?comment_id=346200572135062", "anchor": "fb-346200572135062", "service": "fb", "text": "They've finished the bike path alont Route 16; I'm guessing that that's related.  I don't know if there's a general exemption for that situation, or a specific one, or if 16 just qualifies as an \"express\" road without being limited access.  In any case, the bike path is pretty nice (I tried it out a couple of days ago), so there's really no reason for anyone to bike on 16 now.", "timestamp": "1346094733"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/346098972145222?comment_id=346208248800961", "anchor": "fb-346208248800961", "service": "fb", "text": "@BDan: It's probably related, but I don't think there's anything in the law changing the status of biking on the road when a parallel bike path is added. (Similarly, even when there is a bike lane you're not required to bike in it.)", "timestamp": "1346096590"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/346098972145222?comment_id=346218588799927", "anchor": "fb-346218588799927", "service": "fb", "text": "Rt 16, at that point, I'm pretty sure is a parkway, which has special status (and *should* allow bicycles, but the parallel path may qualify and makes sense to me -- it's a dangerous road for a bike to share with cars)", "timestamp": "1346099185"}]}