Are you serious? A "straight shot" in Boston can turn into a 2 hour nightmare, if you drive at the wrong time. Off peak sure it'd be a short ride into Burlington. But if you hit rush hour traffic around 93/128 cloverleaf you could be sitting in traffic for an hour only moving a few exits. You really need to explore the area on a Sunday, get a map book (Eastern Massachusetts) Guide book by Arrow maps. You can highlight routes you find for shortcuts and such (also get a Southern New Hampshire book as well)
You can highlight shortcuts and routes once you learn them. Sunday is the best day to drive to learn shortfcuts and such and back roads as the traffic is lighter. 95 would be fine probably through Topsfield, but once you get down to the main area around boston around the 128 corridor/93 corridor traffic can get brutal esp along the stretch around the Burlington Mall. Usually its the direction heading towards 93 so you'd be fine once you get past the 93 interchange, but you might hit some VERY HEAVY traffic from 95 to the 93 cloverleaf. (Sometimes tho its bad all the way around to the Mass Pike) best thing to do is bookmark this link
Boston area traffic report - Boston.com and check it before you go. You can also have WBZ 1030 AM on in your car they do traffic on the 3's all the time. You could learn a shortcut or two via back roads to get from 95 say in Topsfield over past 93 , and drop down into Woburn (cut through Woburn to Burlintgon)
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If you follow along in googlemaps.com I could suggest the following shortcut in case 128 is backed up from the 95 interchange (Peabody Jughandle to the 93 ) or along 128 as well to the Pike.
>>> Take 95 South to Topsfield
TAKE EXIT 51 onto EAST ST/ MIDDLETON ROAD
FOllow to 62 West through Middleton to North Reading
Turn L onto Park St in North Reading
You'll come out at route 28
Cross 28
Continuing on Park St.
Veer left at the V fork onto Concord St.
You'll cross 93
and then turn L onto Woburn St.
Turn R onto 129 from Woburn Street
From here you'd follow 129 , turning left onto Cross St. You'd hit route 38
you could go straight onto Butters Row and then Butters Row wil end at a T Junction with
Chestnut St.
You can turn L onto Chesnut street
Then R onto Hillside Way Which becomes MIll St and ends at SKILTON RD where you'd turn
R onto SKILTON to WINN ST.
You'd be in Burlington Here and could cut through some of the back roads to the main part where your company was.
(just a suggestion if there's ever heavy traffic) LOL
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