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Ted Williams has a tunnel and soon Bill Russell will get a bridge
By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:05pm
Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell.
City and state officials, Russell's widow, Jeannine, and Celtics owners and players will gather Monday morning to formally rename the still under-construction new bridge, near the old Garden where Russell played, as the the William Felton "Bill" Russell Bridge.
Russell died in 2022.
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Walton?
Get off the pipe, Gavin.
Fixed
I need to stop trying to do more than one thing at a time ...
Nice gesture
But maybe they should focus on finishing the bridge since it's over 2 years behind schedule.
Given that the new bridge is being built by a contractor
I'm not sure how a renaming announcement involving the mayor, current players, etc., will slow things down (for what it's worth, the announcement will be on the eighth floor of a building in the Garden complex, so no construction trucks will be slowed in their haste to put down more asphalt or whatever it is they're doing now).
tell me
Tell me you haven't been over near the new bridge lately without telling me you have been near the new bridge lately.
I go over this bridge every day on the 111.
It is almost complete. The harborside/north end side of the bridge is complete, they even had the lights on the other day. The river/TD Garden side of the bridge is probably at like 95%. The bridge itself is done, but at last check (earlier this week) most of the work left is being done in front of the Converse building. I think its mostly utility realignment stuff. But it looks to be almost done.
I think Adam reported earlier this year or late last year that the bridge should be finished by November, and it looks like they will be right on schedule to finish it.
Actually
I live a stone’s throw from the bridge. There’s still a lot of work by the Converse building to do. They’ve mismanaged this project completely and being two years behind schedule is not a reason to celebrate.
Mismanaged? Ok, have at it.
Can you explain what you would have done differently at Lovejoy Wharf?
Be specific with your traffic flow plan.
Remember
Remember those two years were lost due to some materials that were built off site being bad.
Its not like they tore it down and then walked away for two years.
2 years is better than 5 years
They found damage during construction, and addressed it. Yes, that incurred delays, but better than ignoring them and instead finding the defects after the bridge had opened and dealing with repairs at that point...
We'll all rest better when there are 2...
Outbound lanes
Forget that
We'll all do better when they stop forcing cyclists to mix with the pedestrians. Like get the unnecessary barriers out of the completed bike lane.
Well "forcing" - I use the roadway because the traffic doesn't move much faster than I can bike, if it moves at all. I'm legally allowed to do that (no, I don't filter). It feels safer to travel in a pack of slow moving vehicles than to walk my bike where there are a lot of young families headed to the school with strollers, dogs, and multiple young kids going in random directions.
Good idea, appropriate location
I heartily approve.
Magoo sez
Magoo shall henceforth self identify as good old Tom Bombadil. Magoo.
Well deserved!
Are there any bridges, tunnels, MBTA stations named after female athletes?
They could name a Green Line
They could name a Green Line stop after Rosie Ruiz.
Why finish there?
Instead of just a stop, they could rename the entire C line after her.
It's an interesting question. Who do you
think has the fame and historic accomplishments to merit that kind of recognition?
I can imagine paying tribute somehow to Joan Benoit Samuelson or Aly Raisman or Nancy Kerrigan, but even those storied athletes feel less significant in historical terms than a Russell or Williams.
Benoit, yes
Kerrigan, no. She enabled her father-murdering brother and wanted him out of jail so he could continue to care for her mother - maybe kill her, too.
No thanks.
Too modern
Regardless of how you feel about Nancy Kerrigan.. she seems.. too "modern" to have something named after her. Also she wasn't a civil rights activist.
I mean sure, let's rename a T station to "Kerrigan Station" and when the train is late we can all say "Whyyyy whyyyyyyy whyyyyyyyyyy"
Not an athlete, but…
The footbridge next to the Longfellow Bridge is named for his wife, Fanny Appleton.
Raisman?
Already has a street named after her in the Charles River section of Needham.
They should name something after Katherine Switzer.....
....something along the marathon route.
All Of Newton
Switzerland 2.
Balls..
Nope, that was a soccer team
Rename
OK, I'll be the nerd that questions 'renaming' a bridge that has no name to begin with :) Aren't they just naming the bridge after Russell? (No dig on Adam - the mainstream press is using the same term)
Charlestown Bridge
was the name I used to see on printed maps. "North Washington Street Bridge" is what I've heard it called more recently.
Yea! to our electronic world
Can't attach images in replies, but Google maps already has the new name attached to the bridge. Guess the city updated the GIS data pretty quick.