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"I had a few hours extra and I tried to walk from a hotel in downtown Boston to the airport. That was quite complicated, actually. I followed Google on my phone, which I think, you know, quite often it's a mistake because you will never lose your way, you will always be punctual. You always follow the best route, which I think is a mistake.

"But on this occasion, I followed Google Maps. It took me straight into the river in Boston. And I couldn't cross the river. So I had to actually give up.

"I managed to walk to the North Pole, but I didn't manage to walk to the airport from Boston."

-- Erling Kagge, the first person to reach the North and South Poles and Mt. Everest on foot, interviewed by Matt Galloway on The Current, 2020-02-17

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now I'm trying to figure out if you CAN walk to Logan...

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If you're not taking a ferry, the shortest walking route from the Hyatt downtown requires a 7.2 mile walk through Charlestown, Everett, Chelsea, and East Boston.

All the harbor crossings and nearer river crossing routes are freeway tunnels or bridges with no pedestrian access, so you have to cross the Charles River, then go upstream on the Mystic River since you can't use the Tobin Bridge, finishing by circling around to the drawbridge over Chelsea Creek.

Edited Date: 2020-03-07 06:53 pm (UTC)

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finishing by circling around to the drawbridge over Chelsea Creek.

If one is even willing to walk across the McArdle bridge. This is the most terrifying pedestrian crossing I have ever encountered.

Aaaaaaaand googling to make sure I was spelling that correctly, I just discovered [W]

According to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration 2017 National Bridge Inventory, the bridge structure's condition is poor and is "[b]asically intolerable requiring high priority of replacement."[1]

The wikipedia article says nothing about that poor woman who was killed.

Isn't there another bridge, up towards Belle Marsh?

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