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Great: State wants to build more bike paths that will fall apart

Harry Mattison wonders why the state wants to add zillions of miles of bike paths when it's currently not maintaining the ones it already has, such as the paths along the Charles River:

... In my opinion, making the paths along the Charles River in Boston rideable should come before creating a 120 mile trail from Lowell to Westfield (here's a map for everyone who, like me, needs to be reminded where Westfield is). I don't know where the Ware River Valley is, but I know that hundreds of people a day ride along the Charles and have to deal with paths that are too narrow, too bumpy where tree roots have grown under the asphalt, and just plain wrong for bikes (the wooden boardwalk under the B.U. Bridge). ...

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Grassroots movement to draft Matt Amorello for chairman
of the Mass BikePaths Authority starts right here!

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The more bike paths, the better. Inexperienced riders need to get off of busy city streets and onto bike paths. Congestion, Masshole drivers, and narrow streets do not a good mix make. It was just last week when a cyclist was hit by a car just a block away from me... horrifying.

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I think these actually go together, more bike paths means that more people ride hence more pressure to fix existing ones, its actually not either or.
Also, how about extending Charles R. bike path to much further west, Natick and beyond.

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