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Forgotten T entrance briefly uncovered once more
By adamg on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 8:55pm
![Uncovered steps at Symphony Green Line station in Boston](https://www.universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2015/downsteps.jpg?itok=ja-AvlIb)
Tim Lawrence photographed an entrance to the inbound side of Symphony station that had been buried in the 1970s, but which re-emerged in 2012 and again this week as part of an ongoing construction project.
Another view:
![Old trolley steps](http://www.universalhub.com/images/2015/downsteps2.jpg)
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Ongoing?
I must respectfully challenge your characterization of the project as "ongoing". Yes, work apparently resumed this week, but only after several months of what I would call "abandonment" - no visible work being done, but the fencing and cement barricades along the sidewalks and pedestrian crosswalk remaining in place, impeding traffic and creating a downright dangerous pedestrian crossing situation at the intersection of Huntington and Mass Aves. Also, the US Flag stuck behind the fencing facing Symphony Hall has been ripped in half for months. If the actual work had to be stopped for months (supposedly because of the discovery of the abandoned entrance) why couldn't they have removed the sidewalk/intersection barricades?
Seriously...
...this has been dragging on FOREVER. I've posted about this before. I don't know if it's because of some state/city jurisdictional argument or what, but whatever they're doing doesn't seem like it should take this long, and certainly not with this level of disruption and danger. It'll be interesting to see if this "ongoing" project is still going on through yet another winter.
Mid-Septmber?
FWIW-Mass DOT held a briefing at which the new project end date was given as "mid-September" (as reported in the Fenways News). I would have thought that all of the businesses (not to mention residents) at 333 Mass Ave, as well as the BSO, would have exerted some pressure resolve the "ongoing" accessibility issues.
Who plans these things?
I mean, you've got Symphony Hall and the assisted living homes right on those corners, which means lots of elderly and disabled people living and visiting there all the time. Navigating a wheelchair or a walker there must be hell even under the best of conditions. Trying to do so with the fence-narrowed sidewalks and jersey-barricaded passageways must be whatever is worse than hell.
Thanks for the update. Here's hoping mid-September turns out to be accurate.