GLX project will move forward, scaled down and with conditions

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Summary of today's MassDOT Board and MBTA Fiscal and Management
Control Board meetings regarding the future of the Creen Line Extension project on Wicked Local Somerville:
http://somerville.wickedlocal.com/news/20160509/glx-gets-crucial-go-ahead-vote-but-with-strict-conditions

The presentation + full report given to the MassDOT Board and MBTA Fiscal and Management
Control Board by the interim GLX team:

http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/GLXReviewFinalPresentation05082016.pdf

http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/GLXBOARDREPORTFINALv2.pdf

Comments

[ceo]

Friends Of The Community Path has proposed an alternative design, here. It's 100% off-street and retains all of the original path's access points. The GLX planners are saying it's still too expensive though.

[cutieperson]

Wow. I'm disgusted they used a picture of someone being pushed in a wheelchair instead of someone wheeling independently. I guess it's at least representative of how impossible the grades on most ramps are, but it's still gross.

[cden4.livejournal.com]

The point of that photo is to show the type of lightweight bridge structure that they are proposing. (Every photo can't include every possible type of user.)

[cutieperson]

My point is that if you choose a wheelchair user it shouldn't be the tired, fucking gross depiction of all of us as dependent on other people!
If you want to go with the argument that it's just about the bridge there was zero need to include a wheelchair at all.

[maclou.livejournal.com]

Is there a wheelchair in those pictures?

[keithn.livejournal.com]

There is not. There is a man pushing a stroller. Portions of this thread have flown off into delusional outrage-land.

[ron_newman]

That's definitely a stroller.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

I concur, that's a stroller.