Claire Saltonstall Bikeway

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The Claire Saltonstall Bikeway, also known as the Boston to Cape Cod Bikeway, is a 135-mile bikeway marked as Bike Route 1 that starts on the Charles River Bikeway near Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and, using mostly backroads and bikepaths, with occasional stretches of secondary highways, ends in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The bikeway was named in memory of Claire Saltonstall, the daughter of Senator William L. Saltonstall, on July 17, 1978. Senator Saltonstall was a sponsor of bicycle safety legislation and was instrumental in developing the bikeway. Dual signs, one with a picture of a bicycle in a green background and the green number 1 below the picture, and another retangular sign with the words Claire Saltonstall Bikeway below that, were erected along the route shortly after the bikeway opened. Few of these signs, however, survive today. In order to follow the route one needs a map.

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• Massbike Cape Cod Bikeways and Trails
• MassBike: the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition
• Act designating the Boston to Cape Cod Bikeway as the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway
• Map of Claire Saltonstall Bikeway