They are redundant roads. That piece of SFR wasn't even built until the 1950s, long after Birmingham Parkway had already been there for decades prior. My take on this roadway system is to abandon SFR, return that land to parks and trails, and have Birmingham Parkway be the through road. SFR is along the river which lends itself to parks and trails rather than roadway usage.
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Probably because the traffic engineers determined it would back up traffic too much at the intersection with Western Ave. and Arsenal St.
DCR Announces Scaled-Back Memorial Drive Road Diet for 2024 - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The latest proposal, as described in the ENF, would reconstruct a 0.8-mile length of Memorial Drive and its multi-use pathways between the Eliot Bridge and the Anderson Bridge (JFK Street).
Does anyone know what's happening with Phase 3 of the Mem. Drive project? I haven't heard any recent updates on it.
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Oh right.... I forgot about that saga.What happened was the local state rep. organized a "public forum" (except only opponents to the project were invited) that was set up to yell at the DCR commissioner and anyone else who dared support unpaving your parkland:
Opponents of Riverbend Park meet in Riverside with state official, demanding support on traffic - Cambridge Day
Riverside neighborhood residents already outraged by traffic pushed onto their streets were in no mood to hear about plans for a Memorial Drive “road diet” or how the state was still considering closing it Saturdays to car traffic as part of Riverbend Park.
This is the same Marjorie Decker who got caught with her pants down in a public records request last year:
Emails Reveal State Officials' Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge - Streetsblog Massachusetts
Emails obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records law reveal how Governor Healey’s newly-hired Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Rebecca Tepper, decided to restrict access to public parkland by cancelling her agency’s popular car-free Saturdays on Memorial Drive in Cambridge...
Extremely important for anyone in this district (myself included) to vote Erika Uyterhoeven on September 3rd, and hopefully Decker will lose her primary in the 25th Middlesex.
