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Taking a bite out of the overpass

By adamg on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 3:17pm
Taking down girders at the Casey Overpass in Forest Hills

With the overlaying concrete gone, a backhoe started wrenching out its first piece of structural steel at the going-down Casey Overpass in Forest Hills, as Clay Harper shows us.

This weekend, the state is scheduled to shut the overpass towards Morton Street, which will free workers to rip the whole thing down.

Neighborhoods: 
Jamaica Plain
Topics: 
Driving
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Forest Hills
Casey Overpass


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Comments

By anon on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 3:23pm.

bye Overpass!

By anon on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 4:47pm.

YOU SHALL NOT OVER-PASS!

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 5:04pm.

KERCHUUUUUUUUUNGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By dd808 on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 5:11pm.

This too shall (over)pass

By BlackKat on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 5:44pm.

Since everyone loves tilt shifting now they should tilt shift the whole overpass and use a Tonka truck to disassemble it.

By Steeve on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 11:00pm.

It's now passed HDR as the most overused effect.

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:00am.

so often used where they're not even necessary, helpful, or interesting.

such as.. here, for instance, where its more of a distraction.

By 500Monkeys on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:27am.

Sheesh. It's a hasty cellphone pic and I monkeyed with it to help convey information and "tell the story". Hastily. But if you prefer, spot the beam in the original here:
https://flic.kr/p/sUnTZW

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 7:45pm.

I rather enjoyed the tilt shift!

By RichM on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 7:05pm.

I wonder if an old T bus could jump a missing section.......

By Dot net on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 7:39pm.

Ah, Speed. When I was first introduced to the quixotic Keanu Reeves...

By KSquared on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 8:51am.

"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'."

By anon on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 9:36pm.

That would certainly add to the difficulty of the annual MBTA bus rodeo.

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:02am.

but then we'd just end up with a firey screeching halt on the green line extension

By anon on Thu, 05/14/2015 - 9:00pm.

Cars are still permitted on it even while they're already taking bites out of it???

p.s. Saw groups of people up there this evening taking photos for posterity.

By 500Monkeys on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:36am.

Closes permanently to vehicles on Saturday.

At least one group who walked over Thursday evening included some of the local volunteers who particpated in the planning meetings and who have been defending the project ever since.

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:52pm.

The overpass goes up:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PG04rZd0oo0/UYFTkPGMqoI/AAAAAAAABCQ/EetKTapWdb...

By mplo on Sat, 05/16/2015 - 10:18am.

I sure wish they'd hurry up and take down McGrath highway overpass. It's a real eyesore, and it divides the city of Somerville like nothing.