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The CommuterChoice Program is Harvard’s commitment Restaurants and shopping areas flourish both on campus Enjoy the paths on both sides of the river for relaxing to give the best commuting information and services and off. Explore a new area for each walk. Map out routes walks. Plan a picnic on the riverbank. Use these to its employees. Healthful and convenient walking is to each location using this map to estimate walking time. approximate times and distances for roundtrip walks. part of your everyday commute, and can be part of your Off-campus retail dining and errands Roundtrip River Walks—Harvard Square over bridges other trips too. Restaurants and shopping areas abound in Inman, Central, Follow JFK Street from the Square to the Anderson Bridge, Walking is an important part of every commute. Whether Harvard and Porter Squares. Walk along tree-lined streets then pick a path along the river to one of the four other you use a bike, a car, or transit, you still walk to the final and check them out. bridges. Return via JFK Street to Harvard Square. destination. It’s also good for your health. A 30-minute • River Street Bridge: 44 minutes/2.3 miles Campus retail dining daily walk: • Western Avenue Bridge: 36 minutes/1.9 miles • Cronkhite Dining Room - 6 Ash Street • Reduces heart disease risk, improves blood circulation • Weeks Footbridge: 25 minutes/1.3 miles • Dudley Café - , Lehman Hall 1st floor • Keeps weight under control • Eliot Bridge: 44 minutes/2.3 miles • Greenhouse Café - Science Center • Improves blood cholesterol levels • Prevents and manages high blood pressure Libraries • Prevents bone loss, increases muscle strength. • Baker Library - Business School More information • Littauer Library - Kennedy School of Government Walking is the one exercise that people stick with. It has Campus retail dining: www.dining.harvard.edu • Widener, Pusey, Houghton and Lamont - Harvard Yard the lowest dropout rate of any physical activity. Walking Libraries: www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries is the simplest positive change Americans can make to Post offices Museums: www.harvard.edu/museums improve their heart health. Try to walk 30 minutes a day, • Central Square - 770 Massachusetts Avenue Outings & Innings: www.harvie.harvard.edu even if you break it into chunks of 15 or even 10 minutes. • Harvard Square - 125 Mount Auburn Street Cultural event tickets: www.boxoffice.harvard.edu Cambridge is the Best Walking City in America, according Harvard Box Office: Holyoke Center Arcade, to reports by the American Podiatric Medical Association Culture and attractions 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, 617.496.2222 and Prevention Magazine in 2008. It abounds in history Athletic event tickets: www.gocrimson.com or Murr and destinations—you should take advantage of it. Harvard has great places and events to walk to. Day or Center, 65 North Harvard Street, Allston, Office hours: evening you can walk to some of the best museums in Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm, 617.495.2211, 877.GO.HARVARD the country, good theatre and exciting athletic events. Getting started Museums • Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street Harvard CommuterChoice Program Walking distances are shorter than you imagine. Harvard [includes Ware Collection of ] is centrally located – a 20-minute walk leads to lunch, 46 Blackstone Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 • Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology - exploration, relaxation, and services for your errands. 617.384.RIDE [7433] [email protected] 11 Divinity Avenue www.commuterchoice.harvard.edu This map indicates 5-minute walking increments. It • Sackler Museum - 485 Broadway helps you plan your route to work, a meeting, or lunch • Semitic Museum - 6 Divinity Avenue Spring and Fall Walk to Work events: see our website. and lets you estimate ho