This weekend is going to suck if you live in one part of Boston and would like to go to a different part.

In addition to Saturday's Boston Gay Pride Parade, which will be packing downtown Boston with an estimated 500,000 spectators, the Cambridge River Festival will be closing Memorial Drive all day on Saturday. To top everything off, the Red Line will be taken out of operation between Park Street and Kendall/MIT so that crews can repair the hazardous Longfellow Bridge.

So, how are you getting around this weekend? Will you brave the crowds and the dreaded shuttle bus service downtown on the Red Line? Take the sneaky but unreliable 66 bus from Roxbury to Harvard? Or opt for the reliable but not-terribly-convenient 86 from Sullivan Station? Will you skip cross-river trips entirely? Or will you be so busy at the various festivals around town that you won't even notice the transportation nightmare that Metro Boston has become?

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