Beth DeCarbo Globe Correspondent June 23, 2021 12:42 pm
Residents in a western enclave of Concord would like to walk or bike to the newly opened
Bruce Freeman Rail Trail nearby. But crossing busy Route 2A is unsafe because a roughly 2,000-foot stretch along the road lacks both sidewalks and crosswalks.
“My son wants to play with kids who live on the other side of 2A. So we get in the car and drive him 200 feet and drop him off,’’ said Caroline Mahoney, a mother of four whose neighborhood is cut off from a number of parks and paved paths by 2A.