Wow. That Charlesgate project is awesome. So cool to see this historic photos of the riverfront. Especially the little footbridge over the Muddy River
which is still there now, half buried under the overpasses...
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It's also fascinating seeing how open/exposed Cambridge is without the tree lines along the river and Mass Ave. MIT looks like a palace sitting over there.
Now I'm sad again that Storrow exists. What a blight on the city.
Also as a tangent to this (and because I'm remembering it being brought up for the new Greenline viaduct), but looking at the photos of the underside of the Charlesgate overpasses that cross over Commonwealth and Beacon. Isn't is sad that we can't afford to just paint all the beams instead of just selectively so where a column occurs? Are we really that stingy? Not that the rest of it is any better, but that patchwork of gross rusting steel and paint looks so damn ugly.
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