Lexington Bicycle Advisory Committee
Fourteen routes provide 82 miles of convenient ways to bicycle within Lexington. Most have one end the town border on a road that enters a neighboring town. Many have the other end at Lexington Center. Others connect to middle schools. Several use or connect with the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway. Three routes provide connnection with the Minuteman National Historical Park Battle Road and its Battle Road Visitor's Center. Each route has separate cue sheets for the ride in each direction. Each cue sheet lists mileages, actions, and landmarks.
These rides make good use of existing bicycle paths, identified bicycle lanes, and quiet residential streets.
Nearby sites of historic or public interest are included, with instructions how to get there from a landmark on the ride. Many of these sites have links to more information about them.
The Lexington Center end is at the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway by the Jack Eddison Memorial Garden at the auto parking lot entrance, drinking fountain, and covered bike racks, off Depot Square (Emery Park), behind the old railroad station, soon to become the offices of the Lexington Historical Society.
Each ride cue sheet has a list of legs between landmarks for one direction of a route. Each landmark is typically the name of a cross road, turning road, path on which that leg starts, or significant location.
For each leg both the mileage from the prior landmark to get to it, and the cumulative mileage from the start of the ride are provided.
Bicycle safety is mostly obeying the traffic laws that apply to vehicles. See Rules of the Road. Also see the Massachusetts Laws and Legislation on Bicycles. Also see the Lexington Bicycle Safety Program, Inc. for excellent bicycle educational offerings.
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