ceo
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Sheesh, who pissed in y'all's Wheaties this morning? (Or yesterday morning, looks like.)
I'm not convinced that the proposed alignment blocks a LRT Urban Ring bridge. This line would have to come through Sullivan where the new storage tracks are, just west of the Orange Line, and then come up on a bridge to cross over the OL and the Haverhill Line. It looks on Google Maps like there's room to bring it across the Mystic to the north of the existing bridge and parallel the Eastern Route between Encore and Gateway Center and still fit the Northern Strand in there. Though there'd have to be a station right there, which would complicate matters, as would having to cross the Eastern at some point if we assume it's following the former Grand Junction route to the airport, supplanting the SL3 busway.
As for the bridge being exposed to weather, so are the Longfellow and Mass Ave bridges, and that doesn't seem to deter people from crossing them on foot.
I'm not convinced that the proposed alignment blocks a LRT Urban Ring bridge. This line would have to come through Sullivan where the new storage tracks are, just west of the Orange Line, and then come up on a bridge to cross over the OL and the Haverhill Line. It looks on Google Maps like there's room to bring it across the Mystic to the north of the existing bridge and parallel the Eastern Route between Encore and Gateway Center and still fit the Northern Strand in there. Though there'd have to be a station right there, which would complicate matters, as would having to cross the Eastern at some point if we assume it's following the former Grand Junction route to the airport, supplanting the SL3 busway.
As for the bridge being exposed to weather, so are the Longfellow and Mass Ave bridges, and that doesn't seem to deter people from crossing them on foot.