Officials to detail state of Casey Overpass teardown at Wednesday meeting

By adamg on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 9:27am

With contractors now getting ready to begin tearing down the Casey Overpass, MassDOT will hold its first construction-update meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Boston English auditorium, 144 McBride St. in Jamaica Plain.

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Count me among the supporters

By LLK on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 9:53am.

Count me among the supporters of the at-grade plans. Sadly, I expect that the Bridging Forest Hills folks will try to drown out any useful info about the construction schedule.

Between the disappearing overpass and the new housing under construction/planned for the area, it will be so interesting to see what this neighborhood looks like in a few years.

Packing tape

By 500Monkeys on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 10:18am.

I believe it to be very important for the community to be able to see and hear the plans for construction staging, to know what is going to happen and when over the next two years. Construction begins in a matter of days, and as many affected people as possible need to process that information.

The BFH conspiracy theorists who stuck their flyers on doors in my neighborhood with PACKING TAPE yesterday didn't win many converts

Interesting that the Bridging Forest Hills

By JP Runner on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 10:41am.

people are so far against the at grade plan, when it seems that this plan will actually do a much better job of "bridging" Forest Hills.

Dedicated bikelanes, better T access, expanded parkland, and, an updated circle/square to calm the chaos and allow for people to actually cross the road there without risking their life, it seems like a no brainer.

BFH is disruptive and irrelevant

By A-nonny-nonny and a ha cha cha... on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 10:19am.

A friend of mine woke up this morning to find that the BFH brigade had plastered all the front doors in his neighborhood with flyers, using packing tape, which can't be removed without damaging the paint on the door. I wonder if they're going to apologize for that.

Count me among the opponents

By Waquiot on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 10:48am.

But that's neither here nor there. All I know is that demo work (or as we call it in our house, the beginning of commuting hell from here on out) was supposed to take place in "the winter," and we have about 8 weeks until we hit a phase where it is springtime to all.

If this is the level of planning, I worry. A lot.

Demo hell

By anon on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 1:13pm.

Demo hell would happen regardless of whether a new bridge was going up or not. Either way, the existing structure has to come down.

I've yet to see a big infrastructure project start/end on schedule.

True that

By Waquiot on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 2:04pm.

Even I have to remind bridge supporters that although I like the aesthetics of the Casey Overpass, being built during a steel shortage over 60 years ago means the bridge ain't staying up. Either it gets taken down or slowly but surely falls down.

Still, we do have the fears that the demo hell will give way to perpetual gridlock. Hope to be proven wrong, but fearing otherwise.

Agree

By anon on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 3:35pm.

Let's hope that there's good coordination of local traffic management during demo and construction. There's a lot of jurisdictional overlap in that area. I think Boston Transportation Department is in charge of traffic and parking enforcement.

I was remembering the steel

By kvn on Tue, 01/20/2015 - 5:11pm.

I was remembering the steel shortage , as I was in an ancillary industry at the time. I tried to find a link to the nuts and bolts of the problem, and found this link to pictures of the 1970's .

DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/11/documerica-images-of-america-in...

Bonus remembered song, Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 (Live at Tanglewood 07/21/1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXb8ZDuICCs