Grounding McGrath Highway meeting Thurs 5.31

[somervillesnow.livejournal.com]

Apologies not Davis Square, but important to Somerville's future in general.  It looks like we need a large turnout Thursday 5.31 to tell the state/MASS DOT to convert the elevated portions of McGrath Highway to an at grade boulevard.  Currently they want to spend $10 million in repairs to extend it's life.  This is absurd, as no one wants this ugly piece of concrete in our city.  The money should be spent to deelevate it, rather than wasted.  If it is spent to extend it's life, you can bet it will not be deelevated for a *long* time.  

See STEP website for meeting details and more insight on the issue: http://www.somervillestep.org/2012/05/mccarthy_overpa.html

Comments

[ron_newman]

I think we're in partial agreement, though you are using 'limited access' in a way that I don't think is generally accepted. My model for this part of 28 is to look at what already exists further north, on Fellsway in Medford and Malden north of Route 16. It has four lanes (plus some intermittent left-turn lanes), but it is tree-lined and attractive, and pedestrians can cross it anywhere with no need for bridges or tunnels.