One of the worst places in Boston to be a pedestrian

adamg — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:27:20 -0400

Shirley explains why it's the stretch from the Liberty Hotel to the Longfellow Bridge, where pedestrians have to battle with drivers coming out of Charles Circle, in particular, motorists coming off Cambridge and Charles streets:

... These people are hitting their gas pedal to accelerate on the on ramp onto any of the Storrow Drive entrances and being already frustrated by the long red lights, they are not letting any measly pedestrians stop them from where they need to be going. It is scary because most of them do not use their signals, or even if they do, a pedestrian cannot really tell which way the vehicle is heading. I urge Boston to please, reconsider pedestrianizing this intersection. ...

Wishful Charles Circle thinking

adamg — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:34:22 -0400

John Daley reads that the new hotel on the site of the old Charles Street jail will be called the Liberty Hotel (get it? jail? liberty? Oh, those wacky marketers!). But he wonders:

Is there any chance they'll call the hotel restaurant Buzzy's?