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The initial meetings in February were billed as preliminary meetings about "Arborway Bicycle Facilities". That (and the blizzard weather) may have tamped down public and abuter interest at the start. Toole properly came to the conclusion that something major needed to be done for traffic calming...

Some of the most interesting notions in Toole's February presentation on roundabouts - to me at least, who had never thought about them in depth - concerned the various elements that contribute to traffic calming and safety. Reduced sightlines for cars causes them to slow down. Tighter radiuses...

An actual traffic engineer would have a better explanation than I can provide, but the Arborway rotaries (Murray Circle at Centre St, the doomed Shea Circle at Morton St) were designed solely to ease motor vehicle passage in the 1930s rather than provide any sort of "traffic calming" - they're...

I thought that closing image for the presentation on Wednesday was really misleading and unfortunate. In February this year, DCR held two large meetings and smaller charettes with stakeholders and the Toole Design Group concerning a plan to improve access and facilities on the Arborway between...

The #39 terminus at Forest Hills has been moved to the Upper Busway on the western side of the station which will be it's permanent home. That upper busway is to be expanded towards Ukraine Way to the south in the coming months. Where the 39 used to turn around on the north side of the station...

Here's a link to a Flickr album of phone pics showing Casey Overpass demolition to date. The most recent shots are first and show the effect of the removal of the last piers east of Washington/Hyde Park Ave, the opening up of views to the Courthouse, to the Ukrainian Church and to the Franklin...

There has been and will be no blasting required. I'm not positive if they'll be taking the piers all the way down beneath the platform - there was a significant grade change when the current station and New Washington Street was built, causing the roadway hump at Washington Street - but the...

No such luck. The two piers west of Washington have now been demolished, and more decking and overhead girders than that... but it's a long Overpass and a complex site. They're trying, though.

Outstanding video! I'm perpetually astounded by how good these drivers are at what they do. And as a local: grateful they're doing the work as fast as they can.

Barletta is operating under the assumption that there IS lead paint on the main steel elements from sometime during their 60 year history. They're snipping girder steel rather than torching where they can, cutting it into truckable lengths and carting it offsite for "processing". Or so they've...

With night work disturbing the rest of the most local residents, things are coming down fast. Barletta removed most of the decking over Hyde Park Ave/Washington Street on Sunday and Monday night: 20150616_123825 And overnight on Tuesday the girders came down: 20150617_131513 Daylight over...

One of those things where if I'd taken my time I could have grabbed it all... I still wonder which of these (or others) were the operative ones under consideration for the SW Xway at the end. Just a curiosity about the design process - were several firms commissioned to come up with something...

I finally got around to looking up the 1966 "Basic Design Report Southwest Expressway" referenced in post #162 of this thread at the BPL. I was mainly looking at the proposed impacts on Jamaica Plain and Forest Hills, but took a bunch of cellphone shots of the four color plates, the plans for...

Meanwhile, here's a link to video from midday today showing removal of the last girder in one of the central spans just west of Washington Street. This is the first span of the Casey Overpass to be fully opened to the sky. https://youtu.be/gye9j-uBLDM

It is a new headhouse with fare machines, turnstiles, a police call box, an elevator and stairs down to an extended Orange Line platform. It replaces the exit-only headhouse currently under the overpass, and makes it possible for T riders from the north approaching either on foot or bike to...

It'll be really interesting to see how that bike roundabout works in practice. A little unclear to me which grade the sidewalk crossing speed hump table follows at the exit of the roundabout: up from the sidewalk (maybe) or up from the bike path (probably)? As long as we're looking at bike...

Each of the bike crossings has separate pedestrian and bicycle lanes differentiated by paint color: white ladders for peds and green paint for bikes. They each have separate signal indicators on the masts: one for peds and one for bikes at each crossing - but it's not entirely clear to me...

I loves me some world class rant. Preach it! :D

Both lanes of the old/existing eastbound ramp traffic along the Arboretum wall are going to be right-turn only from now on. The left lane at the split (the old overpass lane) becomes two lanes just before South Street but no turns are allowed there at all now (not northbound or southbound). Are...

You do realize the overpass has only been carrying one (slow) lane of car traffic in each direction for years now, right? The modeling out to the year 2035 shows a rush hour degradation of car Level of Service for through traffic traveling from Dorchester to Longwood of 90 seconds. Saving 90...