When it comes to the Forest Hills neck of Jamaica Plain, there are two kinds of Bostonians: those who regularly have to navigate around the area, and who spend several hours a week cursing those responsible for the eternal inconvenience that’s the morphing of the Casey Overpass into a “multimodal at-grade roadway,” and those who haven’t gone anywhere near JP since the construction began. Not even to see our friends and families.
Considering that planning for the Casey Arborway Project started in 2011, and that it was supposed to be completed by November 2016, there’s no doubt that a full investigation of spending and (the lack of) progress is warranted—even after all the bike lanes and facades are finished, and everyone forgets about the nightmarish pollution and traffic that locals endured.
In the meantime, with another year of congestion and fumes behind us, we dipped into our thickening folder of Forest Hills images, and also pulled a couple of ringers from Instagram.
Dig Staff means this article was a collaborative effort. Teamwork, as we like to call it.
