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Trees exact revenge on Riverside Line again

By adamg on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 1:46pm

Downed treeWorkers and the remains of the tree: Photo by MBTA.

UPDATE: Service has been restored.

No trolleys, only buses between Reservoir and Kenmore due to a tree falling on the tracks in both directions.

Neighborhoods: 
Newton
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Green Line
Riverside


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Comments

By anon on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 7:23pm.

maybe the T should send in the same hatchet men who have turned the Dorchester Red Line right of way into a treeless moonscape
or take some of the dozens of signs they posted along their Sydney St noise wall that read "Caution: Falling Tiles" (because somehow they can't stabilize them!?)and change them to "Caution: Falling Trees"

By Arborway on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 3:27am.

People along the D Line had a fit because the T swooped-in and cleared a ton of trees on the right-of-way. What really sucks about this is that pretty much everything that could be done was done to prevent this, and it happened anyway.

By issacg on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 9:53pm.

This appears to be right at Beaconsfield, where the T's contractor is engaged in what seems like a never-ending reconstruction of the Dean Rd. bridge. I wonder if the construction had a hand in helping this happen - there was a lot of excavation and I'm sure some roots were taken out.