Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

vanshnookenraggen said:
WTF is that monstrosity?
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"The Thing That Ate The Sidewalk"


There's something wonderfully...I don't know what...about trying so hard to force-fit street-facing density that it makes the very street twice as impassible. Look at that thing...the parking lane is 1-1/2 times wider than the hydrant/meter/sign-chopped slab of crumbling concrete.

Reminds me of the condos built right on top of screaming Route 2 traffic in Cambridge...where the sidewalk serves no purpose except to taunt the residents who look down at it from their upper-floor windows in despair.
 
This thing is incredible. Really. How glorious it must be to sit and actually draw this on paper, look at that paper, and say "lets build this thing!".

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^ the only possible explanation is that the guy saying 'lets build it' is looking at a spreadsheet
 
Charlie_mta said:
Good God, Rutherford Ave is hideous, something that would fit some rust-belt hellhole.
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It literally is horrific. Why can't they do something about it? Make it less of a highway, build a nice median with trees and grass, and kill all of the cement everywhere.
 
cjbski said:
It literally is horrific. Why can't they do something about it? Make it less of a highway, build a nice median with trees and grass, and kill all of the cement everywhere.
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Not sure how stalled this is:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/charlestown/2013/03/rutherford_avenue_to_lose_unde.html

http://www.rcic-charlestown.org/what-will-they-look-like.html

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Toonie29 said:
Not sure how stalled this is:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/charlestown/2013/03/rutherford_avenue_to_lose_unde.html

http://www.rcic-charlestown.org/what-will-they-look-like.html

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Menino was all gung-ho for it; his successor's been pretty quiet. The momentum stagnated when he left. That seems to be the difference in why it's gone AWOL from regular conversation.


It's an improvement, but it's a typical MassDOT over-capacity redesign where they'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming into more sensibility. Given that there haven't been too many community meetings racked up yet, not much opportunity to get loud about it.
 
Affordable housing...a little odd on that side of Rutherford
 
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