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THE YEAR(S) IN CASEY OVERPASS REPLACEMENT PICS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 18, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

 

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.

 

This is what happens when you take down a bridge that carries 24,000 cars a day and force them into the surrounding neighborhoods. Our street is a parking lot with cars idling exhaust into our homes, and the noise pollution is just as bad. Was this all part of the environmental impact study? No worries, will be done in about 500 days…#cityofboston #martywalsh #caseyoverpass #jp

A post shared by Stacey Brown (@daisysmb) on May 18, 2015 at 4:06pm PDT

Day 29: Rain and Construction

A post shared by @thewaterfell on Jul 24, 2017 at 8:24pm PDT

12个个个

A post shared by JJ·Photographer⁉️ (@lou.junjie) on Aug 15, 2017 at 12:17pm PDT

Where the sidewalk ends. #whenyourmorningcommutegetsaroadblock #foresthills #constructionseason

A post shared by vivalarouge (@vivalarouge) on Sep 13, 2017 at 6:59am PDT

it helps me to think of this never ending transportation project as speculative fiction. mostly to withstand the jackhammers but also because something that is not yet is emerging #emergentstrategy #whatwouldadriennemareebrowndo #maybeitwillbebeautiful

A post shared by hilaryhail (@hilaryhail) on Sep 27, 2017 at 2:31pm PDT

#baahalfmarathon

A post shared by Emily Palmer (@dreamsanddoings) on Oct 8, 2017 at 5:47am PDT

(#mbta) DE60LFR departs forest hills as 39 I definitely prefer these over XDE60

A post shared by MBTA_buses1 (@mbta_buses1) on Oct 15, 2017 at 8:23am PDT

Bad ass new bike lanes. #boston #biketales #bostonbikelife

A post shared by Jen Falk (@jfalkglass) on Nov 5, 2017 at 10:34am PST

Oh. So, I shouldn’t go this way? Better signage would be helpful. 😆 #myhood #jp #almostdone

A post shared by Margaret Lias (@mezzomarg) on Dec 3, 2017 at 3:47pm PST

Forest Hills, Hyde Park Ave and the Arborday by night. . . #night #nightphotography #nightflight #DJI #phantom #phantom3 #phantom3advanced #aerial #aerialphotography #drone #droneview #droneoftheday #p3a #flying #dronephotography #djiphantom #uav #droningdaily #quadcopter #smartdrones #nofilter #latergram #boston #massachusetts

A post shared by Russell Holman (@russellholman) on Apr 14, 2017 at 9:52am PDT

#jpgrafitti

A post shared by Jennifer Lewis-Pierce (@jenniferlewispierce) on Dec 23, 2016 at 7:34am PST

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