Originally Posted by
Amitoj
Thanks. I joined Granite State Wheelers some time back but haven't been able to socialize with them much. Dropped a note to BWANH as well now.
It's great that you've been successful in getting some signages up. Gives me hope!
Rt 111 has nice shoulder most of the way, with rumble strips. I have ridden it till Hampstead and found it to be in a fairly good condition for riding. However, once you get off Rt 111, that's when trouble starts. There are hardly any roads in these parts that don't have houses on both sides, so I am riding in residential traffic most of the times.
Btw, one place where I would love to see BMUFL signage is where Ferry St crosses the Merrimack River, going towards and coming from Nashua.
I've had two really scary incidents on 111, one in Windham the other in Hudson, where drivers have used the shoulder as their own turn lane and driven right towards me as if I wasn't there even though I'm basically filling the view from their front windshield.. There's the stretch of 111 in Windham that's crossed by a lot of driveways into parking lots and turn lanes that make it a bit tricky to see all the directions a car could be coming from (starts at one end with Klemm's Bakery, as I recall), and drivers around there want to "share" the shoulder with the bicyclists rather unpredictably from time to time to take the right turns.