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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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Comments

By Jiggles on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:13pm.

Get off the pipe, Gavin.

By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:14pm.

I need to stop trying to do more than one thing at a time ...

By Jon Skarin on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:19pm.

But maybe they should focus on finishing the bridge since it's over 2 years behind schedule.

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By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 3:09pm.

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).

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By cybah on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 6:40pm.

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.

By Ron Newman on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:24pm.

I heartily approve.

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By MisterMagooForYou on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 3:00pm.

Magoo shall henceforth self identify as good old Tom Bombadil. Magoo.

By anon on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 3:33pm.

Are there any bridges, tunnels, MBTA stations named after female athletes?

By BrighTRON on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 5:35pm.

They could name a Green Line stop after Rosie Ruiz.

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By MC Slim JB on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 6:12pm.

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.

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 6:43pm.

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.

By cybah on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 6:50pm.

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"

By Swander on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 7:37pm.

The footbridge next to the Longfellow Bridge is named for his wife, Fanny Appleton.

By John Costello on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 9:24pm.

Already has a street named after her in the Charles River section of Needham.

By PeyoteEatingWaterBear on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 9:15pm.

....something along the marathon route.

By John Costello on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 9:25pm.

Switzerland 2.