Cedar St closed Wednesday 10/17 - Morrison to Alpine

[ron_newman]

Cedar Street will be closed on Wednesday, October 17, from Morrison Ave. to Alpine Street, from 9 am to "no later than 4 pm". The closure will allow a city contractor to remove embedded railroad tracks and repave this part of the street.

(Source of this information: a robo-call from Tom Champion)

Comments

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

Does this have anything to do with the bike path extension? Something tells me that cars will now drive faster down Cedar st.

[ron_newman]

Sort of. Some time next year, the MaxPak developers will remove the remainder of the track from Cedar Street to Somerville Junction (just beyond Lowell Street, where it joins the Lowell commuter rail line). After removing the track, they will build a temporary construction road, which they will use for a year or so. Then they'll remove their road, and the bike path can be extended.

[houlette.livejournal.com]

Hmm. In the "re-elect me" mailer from Curtatone, he listed extension of the bike path as a "fall 2007" project. It sounds like it's not actually going to be extended (at least for public use) for a year and a half or two years. That's too bad. We were getting psyched about it.

[ron_newman]

The path will be 'extended' within a year, but not in the obvious way. The next part to be built will be from Central Street west to Centre and Woodbine Streets, where the city is also building a small park. This will be a disconnected section until MaxPak finishes using their temporary construction road, and until some more Green Line planning occurs.