About Town

 Seen while in town the other day,  a downtrodden apartment building, painted in bacon fat brown with a meaty hued awning and it's called Bacon Chambers.  Fer reals.

Hello and welcome to Allston, Massachusetts!!

Here's a wickedly cool thing  though, Hubway. It's this spectacular bike sharing program.

From the How It Works page:

Sign up online today for an Annual or Monthly Membership and within a week you’ll receive your own Hubway key!  Use it to unlock any of the bicycles in our network, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 3 seasons a year (and year-round in Cambridge beginning 2013). The cost of your membership includes unlimited rides less than 30 minutes in duration, however, longer rides incur additional usage fees.

Those empty slots mean that a lot of folks are taking advantage of this brill concept. Imagine, my fellow surburbinites can take the T or the commuter rail into town, pick up a bike and whiz off to their destination. No need to drive, to crawl up (or down) 93, wondering how you could possibly be wasting so much of your otherwise fab life in bumper to bumper hell and then spend another mullenia hunting the rare, elusive legal parking spot. No need!

For folks who live in town? Say you live in Allston and you want to zip over to The Field in Central Square, Cambridge but NOT get on a rush hour packed subway car -- just unlock, hop on and go. You're meeting chums for some killah BBQ at Redbones in Davis Square, then catching a late show at Johnny D's and need to get back home to Green Street in J.P. after the T's stopped running for the night? No issue, man! You don't need to grab a cab — just climb on the bike and go!

Too awesome. Just think -- getting around town becomes so much simpler, easier. At the same time that I'm eliminating the annoyance and hassle of having a car in the city, I'd be reducing the amount of vile car exhaust AND I'd get exercise. Win/win/win!

I'd sign up for this in less than a heartbeat, I'd brave riding in Boston traffic...if only they had trikes.