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IDCFFSGTFO t1_j9ok9e6 wrote

Reply to comment by SmogTheScienceDragon in $122M to build a new bridge for 160 Dorchester Yacht Club members!?! by LivingMemento

No. NO. Rebuild the bridge that used to exist between Victory rd in Marina Bay and Victory rd in Dorchester. So the half of the South Shore coming down Southern Artery/Quincy Shore Drive can take that right at the Dunks instead of squeezing on to the Neponset bridge with literally everyone else coming from the south side of the Neponset river.

Check the maps. You can see the streets on both sides of the water line up perfectly. It used to be a trolley line. Make it a bridge, and put another on-ramp to 93 in while you're at it, to take a chunk out of Neponset circle's traffic.

Down the line it would also relieve traffic from the Granite ave bridge and that part of Gallivan. It would improve sooo many commutes.

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ObservantOrangutan t1_j9or56x wrote

Really interesting. I never realized there was a bridge there. Good luck getting Marina Bay to ever cope with that amount of traffic though

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itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_j9onck0 wrote

Holy shit that’s a great idea.

That would relieve soo much pressure off of other exits on 93NB SE Expressway.

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hemingwai t1_j9ouq0u wrote

Lol so instead of having them drive over the 3 lane quincy bridge, they should drive the 1 lane driveway through marina bay and over another navigable waterway (which would also require a drawbridge, to access the neponset river)? What are you talking about?

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IDCFFSGTFO t1_j9qnlee wrote

It doesn't require a drawbridge, there was once a trolley line going across there. Presumably that was built high enough to not impede the waterway. The Neponset river bridge doesn't impede the river traffic and that's not a drawbridge either. You could also totally bypass Marina Bay with a whole new road that joins up with Commander Shea blvd. somewhere.

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hemingwai t1_j9qowhe wrote

It would require a bridge that allowed a sailboat to get under it. The bridge that used to be there was a temporary bridge used to trolley military supplies back-and-forth between the Dorchester Armory, and the now defunct Squantum airfield. It was destroyed soon after World War II. Squantum airfield is now known as Squantum point park so that’s another thing that would make your idea impossible, creating a new roadway through a park would be in violation of mass general laws, article 97, which prohibits construction in designated Parkland, without special legislation.

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IDCFFSGTFO t1_j9sybhr wrote

>impossible... without special legislation

If the political will is there, it's very possible.

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hemingwai t1_j9tbnh4 wrote

But why would there be political will? Youre proposing a smaller, redundant bridge, through a less convenient area, that would ruin a park. Not sure what benefit you see.

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Due-Studio-65 t1_j9ookm2 wrote

I wouldn't put another on or off ramp, just keep it for people going local.

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