Rose Kennedy Greenway

GW2500 said:
Great photos to start the Greenway! Some of those trees have really taken root! Looking forward to the rest! Really the plant maturity is what I’m enjoying to see in this , it helps the parks out a good deal. That being said I will probably always feel this park system is good for those who work or live nearby, but I’d never go to them like I would Commons, Esplanad, Castle Island, Mount Auburn, or the Charles River in Lower Allston.
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During the pandemic not so much, but in the longer term, RKG is good for the tourists as well.
 
GW2500 said:
Great photos to start the Greenway! Some of those trees have really taken root! Looking forward to the rest! Really the plant maturity is what I’m enjoying to see in this , it helps the parks out a good deal. That being said I will probably always feel this park system is good for those who work or live nearby, but I’d never go to them like I would Commons, Esplanad, Castle Island, Mount Auburn, or the Charles River in Lower Allston.
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I would point out that part of the reason the RKG looks so good now is that they planted relatively mature (expensive) trees starting out. The maturity level of the original plantings were much older that typical city tree plantings.

Examples from 2006 discussion of the planting of "large caliper trees":

CA/T North End Parks – Rose Kennedy Greenway - McCourt Construction

McCourt Construction is an experienced, comprehensive contractor focused on civil construction projects.
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The exposed blank brick walls detract from it's beauty. Too bad fixing them was either not part of the plan or was done poorly
 
goldenretrievers said:
Thanks for the photos kz1000ps. What is underneath the mural block in the above photo? Some sort of mechanicals for the 93 tunnel? I could never figure that out.
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Ventilation shafts to get vehicle exhaust out of the tunnels below.
 
Great shots of the Greenway! I would venture to guess that there is a new generation (millennials / Gen Z) that are unaware of the dilapidated eyesore once known as the central artery.
 
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The oldest millennials were born in '81, so I think a decent amount in that generation would have seen the expressway before it came down or at least would have memories of the Big Dig being ongoing.

Gen Z is less likely to have an idea of what Boston looked like before the Greenway.
 
Blackbird said:
The oldest millennials were born in '81, so I think a decent amount in that generation would have seen the expressway before it came down or at least would have memories of the Big Dig being ongoing.

Gen Z is less likely to have an idea of what Boston looked like before the Greenway.
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Agreed. I was born in Nov '79 and very much remember riding the central artery to/from the garden (it was the best view of the city at the time because as a kid I felt like I was flying through the city scape).

I also remember taking advantage of those tours where you got to walk on the Zakim and then again into the northbound tunnel, entering from Kneeland St (2002)?

Then there was that weird period during the transition when northbound was fully open and southbound was a combination where some of the lanes got sent up to the surface for a few blocks before rejoining the new viaducts in South Bay...

It's amazing how well the city functioned given the significant level of disruption during those two decades.
 
I just turned 38 and I never got the memo for when we switched our name over to millennials. Like what happened to Gen Y?
 
kz1000ps said:
I just turned 38 and I never got the memo for when we switched our name over to millennials. Like what happened to Gen Y?
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Time magazine decided that Gen Y should be Millenial. And it stuck.

The photos are quite awesome! And the last set in particular made me miss roach-coach plaza so much!
 
citydweller said:
Great shots of the Greenway! I would venture to guess that there is a new generation (millennials / Gen Z) that are unaware of the dilapidated eyesore once known as the central artery.
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I was born in the mid/late 90s and I remember what it looked like. Im on the cusp GenZ.. They call us Millennials (95-00) since we grew up in such a different world than both millenials and GenZ/Ipad babies.

But Im old enough to remember the Central Alley in how gross it was as a kid! Huge progress. Great work.
 
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