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]

Route 9 in Newton/Wellesley is definitely not what Somerville needs. You can go long stretches on that road without any ability to cross it. Right now you can't even walk across it from the Chestnut Hill Mall to the Atrium Mall (one big reason the Atrium is failing).

Broadway in Somerville is the proper scale for what McGrath should be. So is the Fellsway in Malden.

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

Point taken about route 9.

But, I still say either of those two other models is going to cause more traffic congestion and pollution.