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Generally all the renders and layouts look like an expressway.

Agreed. That design does look totally 1966.

Yes, I think a 25' wide median that would include the green two-way bike path plus trees and landscaping would be great, something like a modified version of Comm Ave in the back Bay..

No matter how much they pretty it up, it still looks like an overly wide highway. A 10' wide landscaped median down the middle would break up the sea of asphalt and provide a refuge in the middle for pedestrians and.bikes crossing the highway.

Actually, that's not far off from the electric interurban network of the late 1800s that spanned vast distances between cities. Here's the 1899 one for Massachusetts. The midwest had similar vast networks.

This looks too classy. What needs to be added are big square orange panels randomly placed, a bunch of offset mismatched windows, some cheap siding, and, oh, make it sprawl across there blocks with no interruptions. Then we would have something! 😁

For me the name evokes a vinyl record album, rather than vinyl siding.

A light beige paint job would help it to not look like a dystopian ruin.

Update: MassDOT wants to open the new bridge by 2030, sooner than what they had been saying lately: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/25/tonight-massdot-hosts-online-hearing-for-mystic-river-car-free-bridge-project

The approach roads are stacked, so it won't be possible to switch traffic to one side or the other while one level is being demolished and rebuilt. I'd say close the bridge for a couple of years and just build the new structure in the same place on the same footprint.

Where's the proposed footbridge from Assembly Sq to the casino?

I really do miss these stylish hand-drawn renders, instead of the sterile cadd ones we get today,

Looks like a giant hypodermic needle.

Something like this along the NE Expressway (Rte 1 from the Tobin to Rte 60) would be sweet:

Probably on a par with the food at a State prison.

I think its more a matter of prioritizing what money we do have for infrastructure improvements. Should we spend money on reconfiguring the ramps on an interchange on Route 9. or spend it on this footbridge over the Mystic River? I would vote for the latter.

I need to agree with F-Line on this one. The tracks have been there for 178 years, and converting the LRV line into HRV would not significantly enlarge the footprint. Any increase in noise can be mitigated by noise barriers.

Good looking truss bridge, but It would look better IMO with a "weathering steel" finish like this:

Looks great! It complements the old Sears Building really well.

It's absolutely insane that an expressway interchange and elevated highway were plopped over this.