| Claire Saltonstall Bikeway | |
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| Length | 135 mi (217 km) |
| Designation | .svg){kind=small} Bike Route 1 |
| Trailheads | Boston, Provincetown |
| Use | Cycling |
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 Bike Path near Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts and winds along Boston's Emerald Necklace, using mostly back roads and bike paths with occasional stretches of secondary highways. It ends in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[1] The bikeway was named on July 17, 1978, in memory of Claire Saltonstall, the daughter of Senator William L. Saltonstall. Claire was killed by the driver of an automobile in 1974 while she was riding her bicycle.[2] Senator Saltonstall was a sponsor of bicycle safety legislation and was instrumental in developing the bikeway. Dual signs were erected along the route shortly after the bikeway opened, one with a picture of a bicycle in a green background and the green number 1 below the picture, and another rectangular sign with the words Claire Saltonstall Bikeway below that. Few of the original signs survive today, however, and new signs were erected in the summer of 2018.[3][4][5]
- ^ "Claire Saltonstall Bikeway".
- ^ Collette, Matt (January 25, 2009). "William L. Saltonstall, at 81, former Massachusetts state senator". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "MassPaths: the Section-by-section maps of the Claire Salstonstall Bikeway".
- ^ "RideWithGPS: Cambridge to Provincetown".
- ^ "Act designating the Boston to Cape Cod Bikeway as the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway".