Waushacum Avenue in downtown Sterling isn’t much of an ‘avenue.’ It runs a few hundred yards from Main Street to its intersection with Bird Street. From there Newell Hill Road–really the Waushacum Avenue extension–goes up Newell Hill.
YET Waushacum Avenue, for those of you who never noticed it, has a relatively new, very impressive yellow-painted ‘bike lane’ that runs 150 yards or so to…nowhere. That’s right, that ‘bike lane’ doesn’t even extend to Bird Street. It ends at the School Street intersection! It’s the ONLY designated ‘bike lane’ on any street in downtown Sterling. It’s truly AWESOME! If you bike back and forth on that ‘bike lane’ once you get about 300 yards of pedaling. If you do it six (6) times you get about one mile of pedaling. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m seriously considering buying a bicycle so I can get in some truly ‘safe’ exercise within the yellow-painted confines of that ‘bike lane.’ No more trail running or Ju Jitsu training or stuff like that for me, NO SIRREE! I want to be just as safe as the mindless Branch Covidian morons who drive around alone in their cars all masked-up. Hey, they don’t call this Commie Commonwealth ‘Maskachusetts’ for nothing, after all.
Building upon its overwhelming Waushacum Avenue ‘bike lane’ success, the Select Board is now up for some truly inspired ‘Main Street Planning.’ They will be spending YOUR tax dollars to approve the Weston & Sampson ‘Main Street Planning’ ‘proposal’– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/agendas/2022_2_16_agenda.pdf
Here is Weston & Sampson’s website– https://www.westonandsampson.com/
If you’re at all like me, I bet you can’t wait to see the ‘proposal’ YOU paid for. Maybe there’s another ‘bike lane’ in store for us, or a new sandbox on the Sterling Green in which walked dogs may take a dump without feeling guilty about killing the grass. You know how dogs get that guilty look? Who knows, but you can count on it being really AWESOME!
J.G.
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