Comments on: How to drive to and from Logan without a toll

By: birge

birge — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:37:27 +0000

Thanks, Martha! I really enjoyed your comment, especially the part about them never being able to take away our hard earned status as Mass drivers. When I first got here, I was horrified at the way people drove and hated it. Now, I look forward to it. It’s part practical transportation, part blood sport.

By: Martha

Martha — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:55:05 +0000

I flew into Logan in November after leaving for California a year before. After picking up the rental car (and a very little bit of encouragement from Mere) I headed North to NJC, ME. The exhiliration that followed can only be compared to an IndyCar driver navigating Belle Isle. I grabbed 1A to route 60 (avoiding tolls) were I was immediately faced with 3 consecutive rotaries, then onto the mother of all “instant merge” roads, the two lane route 1. If there is one thing that I know now that I didn’t know before my 5 years in Somerville/Cambridge (besides never to order a “reg-yuh-lah” coffee at Dunkin Donuts) is how to drive those highways like a #%$%! And they can NEVER take that away from me. Thanks Jonathan, I enjoyed the post (you may have already guessed), and your secret is safe with me.

By: Mere

Mere — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:09:12 +0000

Excellent. You should have seen me try to get out of that place when we came to pick up my cousin and her new-to-the-US baby a few months back. There was “construction” at the toll area just outside the airport, so upon exit (and intention to take 90 to 93 north) you sidled right up to within 15 feet of the tolls but were required to continue past said tolls, take a 90 degree left, follow the ensuing road for about 5 blocks, turn RIGHT (if you can believe that) down a one-way street the likes of which would make any car or human cower in fear, merge onto a two-way street in the middle of what could only have been Winthrop, a place it would be difficult to access on purpose, and winding back, finally, in the direction of the original toll area, at which point you were to make a complete U turn in order to wait in line for the 1/5 of the tolls that were open in order to have yourself funneled finally toward 90 West, which you could really only hope would get you to 93 by that point, because god knows there weren’t any signs.