Conference noted::bicycle

    If I remember where Brockton is:  3A South to 4 to 27?
    
    ed

    Ed,
    Yes, that would do it, as 27 takes you right into Brockton. However,
    it is a bit further out than I'd like to go. If it's not feasible to
    go through though, that's might be the next best solution.
    
    John

    The "Massachusetts Bicycle Map" (out of print), show several
    possibilities, but they're all more "backroad"-ish than Rt38.
    One (from Dracut) comes down Fisk St, then Livingston into Tewksbury,
    South, Lake, Shawsheen, Boswell, Chestnut thru Wilmington, Winter,
    DEan, West, Elm, Alfred, Forest Park, Mishawum, Eaton, Wymnan...
    oh, you get the idea. Basically it looks like you want to come right
    down thru Medford, finnagle a bit thru Boston, and then shoot out
    south on the Boston-Cape Cod Bikeway, which goes right by Brockton.
    Another option is once at Medford, take Lexington St. thru Watertown,
    then Walnut St thru Newton, and then come back to the Boston-CC bikeway
    in Brookline.  Come to think of it, the latter is how I'd do it.
    If you want, I can photocopy the sections of the map.  -kb
    

    	Dude:
    
    	Boston's Bike Map - 1987
    	Great Circle Productions
    	163 East Lothrop St.
    	Beverly, MA 01915
    
    	Design & Production: David Weaver
    	Research & Editing:  Elizabeth Sorenson
    	Bicycling Expertise: John Allen
    
    	Check a few local shops, they might have a copy of it around.
    	And I'm pretty sure that you can get a copy through the BABC.
    	They be a volunteer organization which promotes safe cycling
    	through education & advocacy. For information of/on all kinds
    	of cycling, to report problems in your community, or to volunteer,
    	call the BABC hotline at 491-RIDE.
    
    	Boston Area Bicycle Coalition
    	PO Box 1015
    	Kendall Square Station
    	Cambridge, MA 02142
    
    	Dude...

    I have a friend who rode from Roxbury to Tewksbury, MA, mostly on Rt.
    38 once outside of Boston.  He described it as a pretty good ride. 
    With that in mind, the route suggested in the previous reply sounds
    good.
    
    re -1
    
    Boston-Cape Cod Bikeway?  Where is it?  Please tell me more?
    
    Darnley

Getting to the Cape from Boston is easy.  Make your way to Blue Hill Ave
which turns into Rt. 28 which takes you to the Bourne Bridge.  Once you
get out of Mattapan it's a nice route.  Southeastern Massachusetts is
very flat.

    	New State Bike Map on the way...
    
    	The Massachussetts State bike map will be updated and reprinted,
    	with availability as soon as this spring.
    
    	If you have used the old map, now is the time to comment on it.
    	Send ideas and/or corrections to:
    
    	Cathy Buckley, CTPS
    	10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116
    
    	The map has been out of print for several years due to lack of
    	funds. The state has decided to privatize the map to get it
    	published. It looks like the AYH * is going to take on the job
    	of updating, reprinting, and distribution.
    
    	Although the map will no longer be free, it will once again be
    	available.
    
    	* AYH - American Youth Hostels

    AYH can start by removing the bridge that's on the map, almost directly
    across from their AYH in Northfield, that supposedly crosses the
    Connecticut River.  Was I pissed when I tried to cross that on a
    day trip to Vermont a few years ago...  -kb
     

    
    RE: .8
    
      I will grant that the bridge is often obscured by fog.  That it does
    not exist, no.  In fact there are two bridges.  One, with some
    difficulty, can be walked across.  
    
    							Norm
    
    

    The Globe just had an article on these bridges yesterday... what
    timing.
           
    There's one (RT10) in Northfield about 10 miles south of the NH/Vermont
    border, and another (double bridges with island) way north (20+ mi)
    in Brattleboro.  In between, RIGHT across from the AYH, is the
    one that I'm referring to... it has huge iron panels across the
    entrance and it is impossible to get a bike over/thru/across.
    Nicely marked on the Mass Bike Map, though.  -kb 

    
    Hi, I just checked into BIKE notes again after my usual winter
    absence :-).  However, AYH will not be doing the Massachusetts
    Bike Map.
    
    Andy Rubel (current president of BABC) is doing it, *not* as
    a BABC project, but independently.  However, BABC *will* be a
    distributor of the map.  And it won't be free any more, as Andy
    is trying to make a living off of this.  I believe he plans to
    split the map into two - Eastern and Western Mass, concentrating
    first on getting the Eastern Mass. portion out.  He plans to make
    it a better map in that it will be something that you can actually
    *use* on the road (anyone who has the original must know by now
    you can't use it as a "real" map).  I think I remember him saying
    it would be ready this May, however I really doubted that at the
    time he told me.  We'll see.  And he'll continue to have the AYH
    hostels marked on the maps.  Also, he plans to go on to do maps
    for the other New England states as well if the Mass. maps are
    successful.
    
    All this info is as of mid-January.  Haven't heard anything
    more since then.