I wonder if those are stormwater outlets. There do not appear to be street drains in that stretch of Boylston, so maybe drainage was planned into the park?Any idea what these weird curb cuts on the Boylston Street bridge in the Charlesgate are? They're spaced about every 50 feet or so, and old photos show they were there by the early 1900s.
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Yeah...ancient MDC-design flood cuts. I seem to recall seeing those elsewhere other side of the Fens, too.I wonder if those are stormwater outlets. There do not appear to be street drains in that stretch of Boylston, so maybe drainage was planned into the park?
Crazy coincidence. I walked up that sidewalk on Friday and noticed those (I initially noticed the decorative (?) stonework) for the first time, despite having passed through there thousands of time in my lifetime. I was going to tweet about the same question, but forgot.Any idea what these weird curb cuts on the Boylston Street bridge in the Charlesgate are? They're spaced about every 50 feet or so, and old photos show they were there by the early 1900s.
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Where are these people in cars going? If they are going to places along the Green Line, I'd rather they switch modes to the GLX.If people are trying to get out of the city, we should be making it as easy as possible to get on these highway ramps and off the surface streets! The current setup is possibly the dumbest thing (and biggest downgrade) I have ever seen in my life, and is going to fail miserably with even half the traffic levels as it used to have.
They're getting out of the area! 93N, 93S, 1N, 90W access is all in that little nexus. Instead it will become like the cluster-F around Alewife, where we can't get the cars onto 2W fast enough to unclog the streets. The last thing we need to do is artificially add another choke point that creates a 10 hour nonstop traffic jam throughout the area. As soon as cars start getting stuck in the intersection of the O'Brien Highway and Edwin Land Blvd it's going to become the worst gridlock in the entire city. I have taken this route many times to get out of the city and back to suburbs, and seen it in all sort of conditions. The new setup is going to raise the misery levels by 100. More cars will be forced into the neighborhoods, looking for cut-through's just to get out of the area.Where are these people in cars going?
Wow...the number of bad-behavior moments in that span is still way too sphincter-clenching to be hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner. But that's because it's physically impossible to build a Masshole-proof rotary, not any commentary on the quality of job they did @ Kelley. The degree of improvement over the old is stratospheric, but it didn't take more than 15 seconds of vid spotting the overspeeds and hard brake slams to conclude "Nope...still gonna avoid that place like the plague."The new Kelly Sq:
Under the agreement, the USACE will continue to own, operate and maintain the existing Bourne and Sagamore Bridges and MassDOT will serve as the lead project delivery agency with responsibility to construct and subsequently own, operate and maintain two new bridges.
Generally speaking all drawbridges in the US are regulated by the coast guard and they all must open on demand by any vessel. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg...CFR-2018-title33-vol1-part117.xml#seqnum117.5So a dumbass blew through the gates at the Morrissey Blvd. Drawbridge yesterday and got stuck, screwing traffic up for a good long while:
This comment on the relevant UHub post raises a good question - what's the taxpayer money involved with keeping the bridge operational to accommodate a few dozen members of a yacht club? Not to mention the delays to drivers and pedestrians to give these guys access. I'm sure there's an MOU signed decades ago that's still valid, but it still feels like an unfair burden on the many for the benefit of a few.
The top left corner of the image is a serious problem. Theres no deflection, and none of them are yieldingWow...the number of bad-behavior moments in that span is still way too sphincter-clenching to be hanging a "Mission Accomplished" banner. But that's because it's physically impossible to build a Masshole-proof rotary, not any commentary on the quality of job they did @ Kelley. The degree of improvement over the old is stratospheric, but it didn't take more than 15 seconds of vid spotting the overspeeds and hard brake slams to conclude "Nope...still gonna avoid that place like the plague."
With these situations right of way falls to who was there first. Since the water was there first they have right of way. I found this out reading about the portal bridge on the northeast corridor that has to also raise for boats and backs up the trains. Thats why in that case theyre building a taller fixed bridge.So a dumbass blew through the gates at the Morrissey Blvd. Drawbridge yesterday and got stuck, screwing traffic up for a good long while:
This comment on the relevant UHub post raises a good question - what's the taxpayer money involved with keeping the bridge operational to accommodate a few dozen members of a yacht club? Not to mention the delays to drivers and pedestrians to give these guys access. I'm sure there's an MOU signed decades ago that's still valid, but it still feels like an unfair burden on the many for the benefit of a few.