It's slow speed ahead for the Red Line on the Longfellow until further notice
By adamg - Mon, 06/30/2008 - 2:14pm.
For the same reason trucks have been banned from everybody's favorite rusted-out hulk of a bridge. Ron Newman asks; Joe Pesaturo at the T answers: It's 10 m.p.h. for Red Line trains until the Department of Conservation and Recreation tells the T otherwise.
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the question every
the question every Massachusetts resident and our politicians need to ask...
..How is it a major through way into the city, one carrying a transit rail that ferry thousands a week, could be allowed to sit and rot like this?
The problem is to fold, Republican success in blanketly demonizing all public spending and taxs, and the failure of the democratic legislature to use the public money wisely.
Bridge repair is not sexy.
Bridge repair is not sexy. No one notices until it's broken. Combine that with the GOP Governors' slash and burn approach to basic government functions and that's the majority of the reason.
It's even less surprising
It's even less surprising considering that the DCR is involved. There's ineptness in a lot of government agencies but the guys at DCR seem to take it to the next level.
huh?
Please explain how the DCR is the "most inept". Take a look at Boston Common, the Esplenade, the Southwest Corridor Park...all of it looks to be in good shape to me.
They're not perfect, but as far as Boston agencies go, they seem to do their job pretty damn well.
Boston Common is not DCR
I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing, but Boston Common is a Boston city park, and has nothing to do with DCR.
The excessive number of
The excessive number of large weeds growing out of seemingly every crevice on the Longfellow Bridge indicates to me that either the DCR is either not run very well, not funded very well, or both.
oh noes, weeds!
Maybe they help keep the bums (who are fond of lighting bonfires that then take out major fiber optic phone/data lines) out.
You missed the point
Weeds are a huge deal, because their roots expand in the cracks and push slabs of concrete apart. Water then can get in and do even more damage with freezing and thawing in the winter.
So you laugh, but your ignorance is really what’s funny.
double huh?
the boston common looks to be in good shape to you? Despite every hard surface outside of the playground area crumbling and decomposing? Despite the fountain that is a toilet for pigeons and humans alike? Maybe you're thinking of the Public Garden, which has an army of volunteers and private funding
Coolidge Corner is a mess today as well
Harvard Street crossing the Cleveland Circle line was blocked
at lunch time. Looked like an all day affair--glad I was
in a trolley and not a car in that neighborhood.
seriously?
They were working on that full-tilt around 12-1AM Friday night, had the whole damn thing torn up and a detour if you wanted to go down harvard st.
Yep
This morning when I went through there on the scooter, the cop was telling people that the inbound platform was open but that you had to walk down to the next intersection if you wanted to cross to the opposite side of Beacon. Then he waved me through the No Turn on Red sign, since there was no cross-traffic anyways, and I was off.