Time for Hubway to start warning customers to keep off the local highways

Oh...wait, they do? Well, clearly it must be working then.

Actually that's not what limited access means. It means that access is limited to a few specific points, i.e. onramps, as opposed to anyone being able to throw in a driveway to an adjacent property.

Some states (but not MA) DO allow bikes on limited access highways, e.g. California.

There's still no excuse to be biking on the MassPike though. They should not have been there and I'm amazed they survived it.

Storrow Drive is a "recreational parkway." At least that's the BS line the NIMBYs use everytime somebody proposes doing something to actually make the road useable by people.

I agree with the original poster. Hubway cyclists seem to mostly not know the rules, will most often not wear helmets, will coast or hard brake without signaling to slow down, will ride on sidewalks, take up all of muni paths and not allow others to safely pass, etc. They are a good thing to have but casuals are a MENACE. Hubway should require a test to pass before renting.

Zipcar analogy doesn't work because you still need to be licensed. Ignorance isn't an excuse.

Some statistics from every bike share in the US:

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/12/5994879/bike-share-citi-bike-deaths-safety

Given that few bike share users wear helmets (one survey in Boston and Washington found that 19.2 percent wore them, compared with 51.4 percent of other bikers) and so many of them are relative novices, you'd think that suddenly putting thousands of them on the street would be extremely dangerous. So why hasn't anyone died — and how have injuries actually gone down?

One factor is the bikes themselves. They're extremely heavy, with wide tires, making it difficult for riders to get going very fast. Generally, they're also outfitted with lights (improving visibility at night) and drum brakes (which work better when wet). A slow, visible, stable bike means a safer cyclist.

THE NUMBER OF BIKERS ON THE ROAD IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PREDICTORS OF THEIR SAFETY

Another factor is that, on the whole, data indicates that helmets are probably less important for adult bike safety than many people imagine. Countries that have enacted mandatory helmet laws for adults, like Australia, haven't seen substantial declines in death or injury rates from biking.

I drive.. not often.. but I do. And I own a GPS (for all those car rides I never take)

but even I do that.. I find GPS directions to always be a little off so I always look at the route before i even start the car.

I'm also the same person who's GPS is always saying "Recalculating.." because I've taken a better way.

We were using the GPS to drive somewhere once, and it had us take a sharp left at the VFW/West Roxbury Parkway rotary. It ends up that the last use was as a walker. So, you could only hope the cyclists remembered that they were in a car the last time they needed directions.

that indicates "Do you want to use toll roads?" when the shortest route involves turnpikes or toll bridges/tunnels. The only problem with this feature is that the YES and NO buttons are in the reverse positions from every other software dialogue box I've ever encountered in the last twenty or so years.

This resulted in a trip back from Albany about four years ago being far longer than I'd expected. Was in an unfamilar part of town looking for the best route back to I-90, so I hit the 'home' button on my GPS. Because I inadvertently hit "NO" in response to the 'toll roads?" question, I ended up on NY 2, which becomes MA Route 2. With weather and traffic (including the inevitable 'got stuck behind a semi on a narrow two lane road with bilnd corners for ten miles'), what should have been a three hour ride ended up taking me almost four and a half hours.

And the fact that the I-787 exit markers gave no indication that I-787 connects with I-90 (they still don't to this day) didn't exactly help matters either.