by Tracer
Heard from the grape vine she's coming down soon. Apparently there gonna drop her on barge in a few pieces and store it somewhere.
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F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Ci If that $100M in refurb money gets spent, it'll be to build an entirely new and modern spanConsidering that the bridge hs been closed to auto traffic for a significant time, and a decent bridge exists 1 block south of Northern Ave., if they replace the bridge it will probably be a pedestrian/bicycle bridge only, so this new span would likely be a much "lighter" design due to decreased loading requirements.
Sir Ray wrote:Oh, no. City made a big swaggering deal in the GE announcement that it wanted to rehab it for cars: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/20 ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Two days before the Coast Guard shot it down. I have no idea why or who was pushing so hard for this. Big Dig changed the street grid enough that Northern Ave. is no longer a thoroughfare and all load has been shifted to (ridiculously sprawled-out) Seaport Blvd. Likeliest site for the new GE headquarters is also on the parking lots next to the Gillette factory, a full 4 bridges downwind from Northern Ave. So in all likelihood it wouldn't be carrying much in the way of new traffic. Somebody with a whole lot of political pull was pressing buttons very very hard for yet another car shortcut.F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Ci If that $100M in refurb money gets spent, it'll be to build an entirely new and modern spanConsidering that the bridge hs been closed to auto traffic for a significant time, and a decent bridge exists 1 block south of Northern Ave., if they replace the bridge it will probably be a pedestrian/bicycle bridge only, so this new span would likely be a much "lighter" design due to decreased loading requirements.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:So...no...it's not going to be carted away intact on a barge and preserved for future considerations. It's not structurally strong enough to be moved and has to be demoed on-site....although the City of Boston permit application with the Army Corps of Engineers proposes to do exactly that...break it up into sections and load it onto a barge. Your source / speculation seems to be inaccurate, although I don't disagree with the guess that we'll never see it rebuilt / restored.
In a new permit application filed with the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the structure, the city proposes taking down the bridge in sections that would be floated intact via barge to a city-owned storage yard in East Boston.
dbperry wrote:I'm sure the contractor is barely repressing its laughter. Yeah, sure...blowtorch it into pieces, store it for years in a part of town where the corrosive salt spray is even worse, then bring it back and weld back together to run cars over it good as new. Oh, and the design of the swing span is the sum whole of the reason the bridge is historic, so all this cut-up steel is from the primary load-bearing part of the bridge and not just some decorative metalwork. Yeah, that'll work.F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:So...no...it's not going to be carted away intact on a barge and preserved for future considerations. It's not structurally strong enough to be moved and has to be demoed on-site....although the City of Boston permit application with the Army Corps of Engineers proposes to do exactly that...break it up into sections and load it onto a barge. Your source / speculation seems to be inaccurate, although I don't disagree with the guess that we'll never see it rebuilt / restored.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/201 ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;In a new permit application filed with the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees the structure, the city proposes taking down the bridge in sections that would be floated intact via barge to a city-owned storage yard in East Boston.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Your speculation is incorrect, you make a lot of general statements without knowing the facts.
So...no...it's not going to be carted away intact on a barge and preserved for future considerations. It's not structurally strong enough to be moved and has to be demoed on-site. It'll be gone forever because the City waited senselessly long to give the Coast Guard an answer after years of warnings. If that $100M in refurb money gets spent, it'll be to build an entirely new and modern span.