Crazy local construction projects?
May 5th 2012 | 2:17 am
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Re: Crazy local construction projects?
I think this "parkway" was built back in the 1930s. It's supposed to be one of the oldest in America.I personally hate it, since it's a two-lane in either direction with NO shoulder whatsoever most of the way. It's a dangerous rat-run, comparable to the notorious A14 in Cambs which I had to use for work every day.
Though I think the A14 MAY have been cambered . . . .
May 5th 2012 | 9:55 am
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Re: Crazy local construction projects?
Narrow side roads that are resurfaced...while the main roads are falling apart. I know one is financed locally and the other is state but still. 
May 6th 2012 | 12:20 pm
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Re: Crazy local construction projects?
So there's a strip of road joining our town with a neighbouring town about 1.5 miles to the town line. They are widening it, putting a round about at one end, traffic lights at the other and also resurfacing some of the road.
It's going to cost $8.1M to complete...mental...the project originally went into planning in 1998 for a 2001 completion, so starting a couple weeks ago puts it a little behind schedule.
Could be worse, could be the Big Dig...which is being restarted as they have to replace the lights in all those tunnels costing massive amounts of millions, but it's coming from the huge billion dollar settlement against the construction companies over the last 50 years.
They're sticking in LED lights to replace all the lights that are corroding and falling out of their sockets. The new lights should save Boston $2M a year on electricity though...
So what about you guys?
It's going to cost $8.1M to complete...mental...the project originally went into planning in 1998 for a 2001 completion, so starting a couple weeks ago puts it a little behind schedule.
Could be worse, could be the Big Dig...which is being restarted as they have to replace the lights in all those tunnels costing massive amounts of millions, but it's coming from the huge billion dollar settlement against the construction companies over the last 50 years.
They're sticking in LED lights to replace all the lights that are corroding and falling out of their sockets. The new lights should save Boston $2M a year on electricity though...
So what about you guys?
Here it seems they've been working on widening 128 between Peabody and Beverly since the first settlers arrived in the 16th century! I also read that they're planning to completely redesign the I-95/I-93 interchange by Woburn. That wil help my commute, but will most likely be 10 years too late!
May 6th 2012 | 2:30 pm
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Re: Crazy local construction projects?
Did you live here before the big dig?
Here it seems they've been working on widening 128 between Peabody and Beverly since the first settlers arrived in the 16th century! I also read that they're planning to completely redesign the I-95/I-93 interchange by Woburn. That wil help my commute, but will most likely be 10 years too late!
Here it seems they've been working on widening 128 between Peabody and Beverly since the first settlers arrived in the 16th century! I also read that they're planning to completely redesign the I-95/I-93 interchange by Woburn. That wil help my commute, but will most likely be 10 years too late!
May 7th 2012 | 5:56 am
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The Second Ave Subway in NYC. It started in the 1920's. The city keeps running out of money They started work again a few years ago. It's one big mess. So many businesses have closed because of the construction and people have been displaced because the foundations of there building have been altered because of it. I live off of First Ave and I work on Second Ave. Luckily it is not going to affect the blocks where I work or live but it's close. It is one big mess and I feel like it will never get finished!
May 7th 2012 | 10:57 am
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May 8th 2012 | 10:27 am
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The Minuteman trail?
Love place to have a picnic, feasting on all the bodies of the dead
Love place to have a picnic, feasting on all the bodies of the dead
May 8th 2012 | 11:14 am
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May 8th 2012 | 1:38 pm
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There's a great nature place on the Sudbury/Stow townline, used to be a military munitions dump, but it's very nice now and the best place for dragonflies, butterflies and deer around...then again, there's that Garden in the Woods in Framingham, which has the biggest wild flower collection in the state too.
