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Old 08-06-2008, 01:43 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by fatlazyless View Post
Boston, Newton, & Watertown, Massachusetts share a 12 mile long bicycle path that runs next to the Charles River. It has been there for many years. Other than no motorized vehicles like mopeds, it allows pedestrians, joggers, roller-bladers, skateboarders, bicyclists, unicycles, and pogo sticks. It can get crowded at times, too, especially along the Storrow Drive embankment near the Hatch Shell. It all manages to fit and work. Every once in a blue moon, someone gets creamed by a bicycle and they get hauled off in an ambulance, but not too often.

Are you talking about the loading ramp at Paugus Bay Marina, where it loads boats down its' ramp with a marina forklift from boat rack storage? Does South Down Shore have a boat ramp, too?

It would seem that the boat ramps are part of the embankment and that belongs to the state, when it was abandoned, years ago, by the railroad.
South Down Shores has a private marina with a fork lift (boat lift) that transports boats from the racks to the lake.

I assure you that if someone gets hurt on the trail due to a bike or other means, there will be litigation. That is the world in which we live. Why put someone at risk for this type of endeavor...it is more pragmatic to go around and not have the issue.

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