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Luck of the draw wasn't good on Morrissey Boulevard this afternoon

By adamg on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 6:36pm
Morrissey Boulevard drawbridge was stuck today

Necee reported around 5:30 p.m.:

Dorchester bridge broken. Cars as far as the eye can see. Waiting for an engineer. Oh joy.

Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Driving
Free tagging: 
Morrissey Boulevard


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Comments

By anon on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 9:10pm.

Should have taken the T

By Will LaTulippe on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 10:50pm.

$35 million. What does a tiny drawbridge cost?

By BostonDog on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 6:15am.

A replacement drawbridge is probably $150+ million. It's not a small road or a "tiny" drawbridge.

The $35 million is a drop in the bucket.

But yeah, I agree. Making Wynn or another sleazy business cover the full replacement costs of the bridge would have been a more fitting punishment over a token payout.

By Parkwayne on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 6:47am.

Or just make a taller bridge and tell the sailboat owners they've got to go elsewhere.

Sorry but there's lot of places to put your boat in greater Dorchester.

By Waquiot on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 1:24pm.

The yacht club predates the road, so they have the right of navigation.

Of course, the state could buy out the yacht club.

By Parkwayne on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 3:29pm.

I'm not saying the yacht club wouldn't have some rights, just that in the overall scheme of things, that's the one of last areas we should be spending infrastructure money on given the thousands of other boat slips around the metro area.

By johnmcboston on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 12:04pm.

Some day the bridge will indeed need replacement. be an interesting discussion of tax dollars paying for a drawbridge that's only needed for private benefit....

By anon on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 3:59pm.

The Alford Drawbridge was "fixed", then "fixed" again, then "fixed" again. Baker's road repair fails are up their with its Positive Train Control (PTC) application fails.

By Beanzzz on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 7:00pm.

That bridge was rebuilt, took two years (2001-2003), so everyone screaming about replacement costs and who's going to pay for it, can calm down already.

It's mechanical. Mechanical things get stuck sometimes.

By anon on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 7:46pm.

Boeing said the same thing about the 737 MAX.