ratbas t1_jbe60y9 wrote
Reply to comment by Engelgrafik in When these projects are all completed in the next few years, you'll be able to ride a bike between Lowell, Marlborough, and Waltham almost entirely on paved off-street paths: by Sbatio
Here's video from last year starting near the Market Basket in Waltham.
Engelgrafik t1_jbeb9rg wrote
Oh cool, so you can walk / ride across that bridge now. NICE!
Also, that first area in the video... I think that's the area I helped clear many years ago. :)
ratbas t1_jben5vv wrote
The bridge over 128? Yup.
The bridge over the tracks? More often than not, but every now and then somebody fixes the fence.
Engelgrafik t1_jbfblfz wrote
Tracks. I didn't even know you could cross 128 there. Was that recently opened? I mean, that's the trail we were clearing but I don't recall the bridge was crossable. I used to always park my car at that big office complex and then walk my bridge across the train tracks. I tried walking the RR bridge once but it was way too scary.
From your video it looks like it still ends in Wayland. I would try continuing through the overgrown upraised RR but I would get a thorn in my tire every single time, no joke. I gave up after the 3rd time.
If you can stand riding on 20, you'll eventually hit more bike able areas... a little on the left and then a lot on the right which go north through Great Meadows areas.
I used to bike a lot of this all the way up to Billerica where I worked.
ratbas t1_jbh5irx wrote
The 128 part is accessible and shows no signs of ever being blocked off, but at the same time it still looks and feels very much like just an old rail bridge.
I haven't been out there since last spring when this was recorded. Once it warms up I'll head out again and shoot the update.
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