Marc Levy Josiah Lamirand posts a sign Tuesday along Cambridge’s Linear Park.

Linear Park, a popular Cambridge walking and biking path, will close for improvements starting Monday the 27th. The change will affect up to 1,500 daily users, about a third of them bicyclists, according to a May 2022 count provided by city spokesperson Jeremy Warnick, and will last for as long as 14 months.

The detours will be less than linear: Walkers are directed to use Clifton Street and Whittemore Avenue to go north-south, and Dudley Street and Shea Road east-west, roughly parallel to the path; bicyclists might try Dudley-Shea or Harvey Street and Cameron Avenue east-west, with connections on Clifton or Massachusetts Avenue.

There will also likely be times the path reopens between phases of work, Warnick

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