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FWIW, the Arborway Yard is way closer to my place than Shattuck - I walk past it on my way to Franklin Park almost daily. :cool: My argument is more of a YIMBY one - build for the best health outcomes for the patients/clients you purport to serve, integrated into the community they hope to...

The covenant that transferred the City park land to the State in 1949 specifies that it must be used for health purposes. Most of the medical facilities at Shattuck now are transferring to the "Newton Pavilion" in the South End. The Supreme Court's 1999 "Olmstead Decision" has come to mean...

Reviving this with updates... and an idea: The planning process to date has focused on re-purposing the site into a sort of 'recovery campus' model with, so far, two of the 13 acres dedicated to "low-threshold supportive housing" (75-100 units minimum) with wrap-around supportive services, and...

[Thanks] I too wish the northern plaza felt a bit more green. Hard to predict the future, but a lot of the currently stark-looking plaza is permeable pavers or otherwise channelled to give the trees more chance to benefit from rain. Could just be wishful thinking, but hopefully these trees will...

Time marches on... the Upper Busway is now fully functional and complete, the bike paths from Ukraine Way to the Arborway on the western side have their final paving, historic and way finding signage has been installed in both plazas and in Shea Square, the funky Stony Brook landscape history...

Here's a Boston Globe article from 3/25/69 with a map and a nod to Dukakis: Linky Would have marooned Olmsted Park and Leverett Pond inside giant rotaries surrounded by one-way routes, and taken the (formerly) lovely stone overpass over Huntington/Rte. 9... and crapped up the Emerald Necklace...

Way late to this, but: A year was lost pre-construction while the Mass Historic Commission considered the conversion of Shea Circle to Shea Square. Then the two months of blizzards you cite delayed the start of demolition. Then a year was lost because MBTA failed to procure the T-platform jet...

This project is finally entering its last few months of major construction. There is still work to be done on the new northern plaza and head house, the new upper busway is not yet operational (though the roof has been raised), and the station-side plaza has not *quite* been returned to the...

That intersection is bizarre/dangerous in several ways. Southbound vehicles have a longer green light (with no warning signage), so when northbound cars turning left get hung up in the intersection at the light change and assume oncoming cars are going to stop on the same sequence... and then...

It's a very frustrating situation for many locals concerned about ongoing safety issues in the Jamaica Pond-to-Forest Hills corridor, Centre street from the VFW Parkway back to the Murray Circle Rotary and the Parkman Drive/Perkins intersection where a seemingly simple crosswalk has been long...

I'm pretty sure the easement through the center running north-south is the result of the Stony Brook culvert that has run underground there since the late 19th century. The Brook supplied water to the numerous breweries and other industrial activities to the north approximately along Amory and...

Though color-coded pink (as is the genuine ground floor retail of Building A), the ground floor "Bike Shop" proposed directly adjacent to the Arborway in Building B (the northeast corner) is described as a "bicycle work room for residents" in the PNF. Other than the River Road industrial block...

As a nearby resident, I'm most concerned by the lack of setback along the under-construction Casey Arborway pedestrian and bike paths adjacent to Building B's northern edge. Casey landscape architects have designed a surface "dry riverbed" feature running northeast from that corner to echo the...

Though construction continues throughout the Casey project area, MassDOT has announced that the first trees will be planted next week in the permanent mainline Arborway median between Shea Circle and about the Courthouse. Only 30 or so 'Princeton' American Elms to start, but they are the first...

At the construction update meeting last night MassDOT announced a 366 day delay in completion. They blamed the snows of 2015 and procurement delays concerning jet fans to be installed at the northern end of the Orange line platform before the old head house can be demolished. The new Arborway...

MASSDOT is hosting a meeting on the construction schedule Weds, 6/29, 6:30-8:30, English High School Auditorium. Indications are that the "Full Beneficial Use" date is moving from October 2016 to December 2016, with "completion" date moving from November to February 2017. It seems some of this...

As I understand it, a (very) significant portion of the funds for the Casey Arborway Project come from federal sources - the tail end of stimulus package Accelerated Bridge Fund monies that *must* be spent by September 30. As noted, I do think some aspects of the overall project like some...

Very minor niggles re: Arborway bike paths "Substantial completion" is supposed to be September 30, 2016 (not December) There will be 3.1 miles of new bike paths in the project area. Even though it's a State project and the Arborway itself is a State road, perhaps "Boston" is counting these...

Took me a while to get this done, and longer still to post it here, but I put together an annotated version of the DCR/Toole Designs presentation on Improving Arborway Bike Facilities from earlier in the Fall here - more detailed images and revised designs from the february presentations. The...

DCR has now made available Toole Design Group's 10/14/2105 presentation from their "Improving Multi-Modal Access to the Emerald Necklace in Jamaica Plain" meeting (minus the traffic modeling animations for now). I wrote up a description of it using screen grabs, and since it's sort of an...