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December 16, 2007

The Journey To Gillette Stadium

FOXBORO -- The journey to Foxboro was an interesting one.

I left my house at about 9:00 a.m., after an hour of shoveling my driveway and my street so that my car could make it to a major road that had been plowed.

I took route 10 to 95 and neither road had been plowed very well. Most drivers were going 35-miles-per-hour or less. Traveling on route 95 in Rhode Island was much better than traveling on it in Massachusetts because 95 had been plowed in Rhode Island but it had not been plowed in Massachusetts.

You couldn’t even see the pavement in Massachusetts for much of the drive. Trucks did plow the middle lane a few miles before 495. Traffic did not back up until a half-a-mile before Route 1, and Route 1 was only two lanes instead of the usual three heading to the Stadium. In all, it took about two hours once I left my house to get to Gillette Stadium (three if you include the shoveling).

Unfortunately, the parking lots weren’t paved very well and many fans attending the game parked either illegally or squeezed in-between two cars in spaces that were too small for a regular spot and then struggled to get out because they were too close to the other cars.

The fans were then in for a big surprise because most of the isles and seats at Gillette Stadium had not been shoveled.

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