OldWrangler9033

OldWrangler9033 t1_izhevfz wrote

I'm not in love with the idea. I'd rather keep the trees around make a reservation for land. Massachusetts filling up with housing or leveling old housing with more property and squeezing in more.

I support renewables, but they need find better way to deploy them without wrecking non-replaceable forests. Solar panels on homes would be more effective than leveling forest. When they do this...i hope they plan for solar batteries.

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OldWrangler9033 t1_iw4hl00 wrote

They won't have budget to support robust public transit is where I'm coming from this. I've worked in this town many times, in the very building their building this project in. Most of the folks who would been able to fund it used to work in that building. Now they don't want to, they work in Boston/Cambridge.

So they got their robust transportation system, but not there.

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OldWrangler9033 t1_itxvyq0 wrote

It gets better. I'm old enough to have driven on that very same highway in its last years of existence. It was bloody narrow 6 lane highway split upper and and lower decks going Northward exiting city.

At one point, it had merge with single lane split to the Tobin bridge. Some people whom I knew who drove this "fun" stretch of the road called it the "Fun Game of Merge". This was because it was so bloody narrow and drivers were so frustrated they got highly...aggressive. I'm certainly glad above ground Central Artery is toast. It was one worse ideas for highway, I'm glad the other section wasn't built. The I-695, it would done worse things to the city.

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