Community Path (Lowell Street to Central Street) Temporary Detour Begins Monday, July 28 or Soon After

Mayor Ballantyne and the City of Somerville’s Engineering Division would like to share an important announcement about an upcoming detour on the Somerville Community Path so residents can plan their travel accordingly. 

Beginning on Monday, July 28 or soon after, people walking, wheeling, or cycling on the Community Path between Lowell Street and Central Street will be detoured.  

This temporary detour (approximately 1 week, weather permitting) will enable contractors to repair a section of damaged concrete along the path between Lowell Street and Somerville’s Junction Park. 

Once the detour is in place, it will be in effect 24 hours a day. Community path users and community members are reminded to please use caution while traveling along detour streets in residential neighborhoods.  

People biking will be detoured via Central Street and Vernon Street before reconnecting with the path via the accessible ramp at Lowell Street. Pedestrians can use this same detour or choose to travel via Central Street and Albion before reconnecting with the path at Lowell Street. Detour signage will be posted along the route.  

For details, including a full detour map, please visit somervillema.gov/communitypath.  

About the Community Path  

The Somerville Community Path is an approximately 3.2 mile off-street multi-use path that runs from Alewife Linear Park at the Cambridge city line to east Cambridge by the Lechmere MBTA station.  

The original Somerville Community Path was constructed in 1985 in the former Fitchburg Cutoff Rail Bed and ran approximately 1.3 miles from Massachusetts Avenue to Lowell Street via Davis Square. The Community Path Extension, part of the MBTA’s Green Line Extension project, opened in June 2023 and extended the path from its previous terminus at Lowell Street to East Cambridge near the MBTA’s Lechmere Station. 

Persons with disabilities who need auxiliary aids and services for effective communication (i.e., CART, ASL), written materials in alternative formats, or reasonable modifications in policies and procedures in order to access the programs, activities, and meetings of the City of Somerville should please contact Adrienne Pomeroy in advance at 617-625-6600 x 2059 or apomeroy@somervillema.gov.  

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