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Monday, November 26, 2007
Columbus First Baby Step
I feel like I just saw the first flake of a big snowstorm coming. This section of highway will be covered with 3 blocks of buildings and park areas. The most distant section in the photo will be a 35-story hotel, in the middle will be condominiums, and where I'm standing will be low and middle income housing. Also, green park space will be added right behind me in a small triangular section between Tremont Street and Arlington Street. From the looks on the plans of this project I found online in a federal environmental impact report, the dust will be flying in my neighborhood. They closed the ramp on the right last week for a few nights, and started banging out the curbs, and putting the prefab concrete dividers along the north edge of this section of the Massachusetts Turnpike looking west, in downtown Boston.
Here's another view, straight down the ramp. with the equipment gathering.
This will also be covered, and might drive down the
center of a building like the next exit west has been for 38 years, if
my memory serves me. Those are over-sized tractor mounted jack-hammers
way out in the distance. For the next two or three days, they knocked
out the curb stones with them. When that was done, and they had safe
work space, they went to hand operated jack hammers, and made some more
space out of the old poured curbs.
This next huge Boston project needs a nick name. I was
thinking the Big Boh, (Building-over-highway), after discounting Big Dig
Up, or Big Dig Over.
Pictures in the daylight will be here on this blog as soon as they start working in daytime.