The Boston Bypass

[czsz]

The fundamental flaw I see in the planning for streets and highways in Boston starts and ends with the idiots who decided against the grid system and decided to put the heart of downtown on the akward and odd shaped tip of Boston that it is located on.

Yeah, well, the cows don't like you either.

 

[Ron Newman]

Vancouver's peninsula is quite small. I'm not talking about the big one where UBC is. I mean the little one that contains the city's downtown and ends at Stanley Park.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

I think Boston's big mistake was not engaging in a Haussman-style street redesign in the 1800's as it filled in the Back Bay and expanded into Dorchester, Hyde Park, etc. (And it should have swallowed up Brookline, too.) Parisian-style boulevards providing ample space for traffic -- and later, subway lines -- to flow from the outer neighborhoods into the central business area would have been a hugely beneficial development.

Um.. Comm Ave, Blue Hill Ave, Columbia Blvd, the various parkways that run through the city, etc.

 

[Suffolk 83]

lol @ mass88's intellectual beatdown. I didn't do it... Im just laughing

 

[kmp1284]

^ It's still not quite as bad as cool36's believing this was a viable project.