Originally Posted by
stien
Jim,
I went from Whitwell St (around the T station there, Quincy Center right?) along Hancock St, eventually going closer to the ocean since it was safer. From there the 3A bridge really put a damper on my fun. I saw a few large highways with no easily accessible/terrible sidewalks and no way to sidestreets from large highways, I kinda gave up from there. Have you ever done it? I'm sure it could be done, but it's nothing I'd want to do 5 days a week on my road bike especially with 700x25 tires.
Thanks for the reply. As mentioned in prior posts I am an early morning reverse commuter so consider the source, and I ride a road bike with 700 x 23C tires. The two other alternatives across the Neponset River from Quincy are Granite Street to Adams and thence to Gallivan Blvd; or Adams Street to Dorcester Lower Mills and on to Dorchester Ave. Both are less harrowing than the Hancock St Bridge, though I think the Morrissey route into Boston, also accessible from Gallivan, would be less harrowing than Dot Ave.
I once had a visitor from rural Virginia and we did an early morning weekday ride from Kenmore down to Marina Bay in Quincy over the Hancock St Bridge. The ride down there wasn't bad but the return trip back to Boston was not great; I admit it was not a good choice for a rural Virginian commuter.
Nonetheless Marina Bay was a great destination.
