Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

[RandomWalk]

The Green Line is closing for a month from mid-September. I guess that answers the question about whether any work happens while trains are running: Nope.

 

[bigpicture7]

The Green Line is closing for a month from mid-September. I guess that answers the question about whether any work happens while trains are running: Nope.

Yes, the entire green line, all the way out to Riverside ; )

Translation: the North Station to Gov. Center segment will be closed for 24 days starting 9/18

 

[Blackbird]

Will the OL remain running from North Station through to State?

 

[Suffolk 83]

Nothing to do with the man's politics - - generally I thought he was pretty good. Particularly though, he had an antipathy to public transportation and he conducted his transpo policy as such. His 8 years were a disaster for the T and his appointments showed his lack of interest.

It ain't political. It's transportational.

Public transportation is very political though- 1 side is staunchly, vehemently against it while trying to keep that on the downlow as much as possible and the other side is lukewarm at best on it.

Back to the purpose of this thread, we need to give the original engineers/construction teams oodles of credit for building the most robust garage in the history of man here. This thing could have lasted a 1000 years

 

[stefal]

Will the OL remain running from North Station through to State?

Yes, it will just bypass Haymarket.

These closures render the GLX effectively useless if you want to reliably get anywhere within a certain window of time. The headways drop to ~20 minutes.

 

[Delvin4519]

Yes, it will just bypass Haymarket.

These closures render the GLX effectively useless if you want to reliably get anywhere within a certain window of time. The headways drop to ~20 minutes.

Plus, there aren't even any timetables or realtime departue info during the diversions. The trip planners still show 7 min headways when that's not true.

Still blows my mind the MBTA built a subway line extension, and can't even get any departure time information until the train has already left the station. The proximit app has GLX stations now, but they show up blank for departure times southbound until Gilman Sq. or East Somerville.

 

[DowntownDave]

The garage remains look really strange from above:

 

[Delvin4519]

From North Station/Haymarket 2023/09/08:

 

[The EGE]

Some articles about the design and construction of the Government Center Garage from 1968 and 1970:

Article clipped from The Boston Globe

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 9/17/1968.

www.newspapers.com

Article clipped from The Boston Globe

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 10/20/1968.

www.newspapers.com

Article clipped from The Boston Globe

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 3/31/1970.

www.newspapers.com

And a very prescient anti-garage editorial from 1971:

Article clipped from The Boston Globe

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 1/13/1971.

www.newspapers.com

 

[chrisbrat]

 

[Vagabond]

Some articles about the design and construction of the Government Center Garage from 1968 and 1970:


And a very prescient anti-garage editorial from 1971:

Article clipped from The Boston Globe

Clipping found in The Boston Globe published in Boston, Massachusetts on 1/13/1971.

www.newspapers.com

RIP Mr. Menzies - we miss your insights.

Ian Menzies, former Globe columnist and managing editor, dies at 101 - The Boston Globe

Mr. Menzies was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his service in the Royal Navy Reserve supporting the D-Day invasion during World War II.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[stefal]

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9 days in, 15 days to go. Doesn't look like everything will be down by then...

 

[chrisbrat]

9 days in, 15 days to go. Doesn't look like everything will be down by then...

Interesting. I was impressed how much they'd done and how little was left.

 

[DowntownDave]

Down to the last column...

 

[BosDevelop]

Any chance this demo has taken so long that the powers that be (i.e. those with the $) have realized that a lab here is not the best use of this prominent space? I know it is a huge long shot but labs elsewhere are getting scraped or at least rethought.

 

[Equilibria]

Any chance this demo has taken so long that the powers that be (i.e. those with the $) have realized that a lab here is not the best use of this prominent space? I know it is a huge long shot but labs elsewhere are getting scraped or at least rethought.

I don't think the motives here need to go beyond "a worker died and the T had to do an emergency shutdown". That's plenty of reason to go slow.

 

[king_vibe]

I don't think the motives here need to go beyond "a worker died and the T had to do an emergency shutdown". That's plenty of reason to go slow.

I think his question supposes the inverse causality of your response. He's asking "did demo take so long that the lab market has tanked and now they'll have to change the design?" not "did they take a long time with the demo because they wanted to the lab market to crash?"

 

[LexSEDotVille]

10/18

Last stand

 

[Charlie_mta]

10/18
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I'm really, really wanting those last tall columns and gigantic beams to come down soon. Once they're gone, it will look like the garage is pretty much history.

 

[stick n move]

Would be pretty cool if they kept that last bit and stuck it on the greenway out in front of the building like an itsukushima shrine.