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Dead trees standing
By adamg on Mon, 09/28/2015 - 8:12am
Troublewithtribbles shows us some of the trees marked for elimination to make way for the new pedestrian bridge next to the Longfellow from Charles Circle over Storrow Drive to the Esplanade.
Top photo copyright Troublewithtribbles and posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr. Bottom photos from Roslales and Partners, which designed the bridge. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
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Engineered for Storrowing?
The engineers do know that this will get whacked by trucks several times a year, right?
You can't seem them in the renderings, but there are airbags...
... hidden in the support truss.
Where is the CGI U-Haul truck
Where is the CGI U-Haul truck opened like a sardine can?
New ped bridge a substantial improvement
The new ped bridge:
* will comply with ADA (not too steep)
* will be 14 feet wide (the current bridge is about 7 feet)
* will not have the sharp switchbacks the current ped bridge has.
It's a good improvement. Sorry for the tree loss -- maybe plant some new ones in the median?
Does anyone know the timeline
Does anyone know the timeline for completion? The stairs on the old bridge have been destroyed or inaccessible for over a year now.
Soon? ;-)
Foundations for the pedestrian bridge should start in the next month or so.
The old bridge will stay in place until the new is completed, so there's always access. (There's a short time without access when the old, which will be right next to the new, is removed, but it's limited.)
There's also going to be a rather nice landing area near the Boston abutment tower. The whole area is going to look pretty spiffy and should hopefully offer better access.
Construction starts next year
Says in link below it will start next year and completion is 2017. You would think it would have fewer schedule setbacks than the Longfellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Appleton_Bridge
Thanks for posting this
I was wondering why the (expletive) we were going to spend money to build a new bridge.
Double the width
You only have to look at the backup during the 2013 Red Sox parade to see the reason for doubling the width of the bridge. I don't recall, but I got to believe it is even worse after the 4th of July fireworks.
Aw man, I'm totally bummed
Aw man, I'm totally bummed that there won't be an easier way from the Esplanade to the bridge like there was before. There used to be a cutover to the bridge from the overpass. It wasn't necessary to go all the way across the bridge to Charles Circle before going back to the Esplanade :(
Are you sure?
Are you sure?
The bottom rendering looks to show a connection from the Longfellow (near one of its piers) to the footbridge.
Ah, now that I squint and
Ah, now that I squint and look harder I think you're right. Good news.
Has there been any recent
Has there been any recent mention of the fate of the other planned pedestrian bridges down by North Point?
DCR Resource Management Plan
I didn't read this too carefully, but there is mention on page 80 (page 92 in my PDF viewer) of this report.
Listed as priority 1. I didn't see a listing for projected cost.
http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/dcr/stewardship/rmp/charles/approved-rmp-2-...
EDIT: There is $3.6 million in the New Charles River Basin Trust Fund for the bridge, but I don't see what stops them from going forward.
Ugh
I hate to see healthy trees cut down. It takes so long to grow a canopy like that! The Forest Hills area looks like a barren wasteland since about 200 trees were eliminated as part of the Casey Overpass project.
Smart headline by the way, Adam!
some community service for that guy
Put the tree-killing ninja from Brighton to work. Tell him to grab his hammer and get crackin'.
Storrow is going to be
Storrow is going to be consolidated and lowered under a single arch of the Longfellow. Why are we cutting down trees for a pedestrian bridge that will soon be too long and too high? Wait to reconstruct the bridge after the storrow realignment. Place the landing closer to the old alignment for storrow outbound and save many trees in the process.
Any update?
Any update on this bridge? Seems like they started a very small portion of it a while ago but there has been no progress since!