the joys of driving: boston edition

so, tonight, i embarked on a simple driving task. all i had to do was go from beck's work in cambridge ("A" on the map below) to the marriott long wharf in boston ("B").

in short, this is what i tried to do:

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...and...thanks to the brilliant layout of one-way roads and hidden ramps, this is the route that i actually took:


this is, indeed, why God invented the subway.