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Cyclist's lament

November 19, 2008
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IT WAS exciting to read "Work on South Bay Harbor Trail is launched" (Metro, Nov. 8), but it makes me further frustrated and confused as to why Mayor Menino and the state did not get a bike path through the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The article says that the Harbor Trail will link bicyclists to the Greenway, but what good is that if there is no way to bike there? The Greenway, really a glorified median strip, could at least be semi-useful as a way for walkers and bikers to enjoyably cross through downtown. Instead, it is a miserable path, interrupted by frequent highway ramps, speeding cars with no traffic-calming elements, and sidewalks that disappear. What is the point of connecting a bike path to the Greenway if the Greenway is not for bikers?

SEAN HOOLEY
Jamaica Plain

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