Massport has its phase 1 haul road project out to bid. It cuts thru/behind the old tank farms and power plant(what f line mentioned earlier in the thread). It more or less follows a route a rail line to conley would need to take. I looked at the drawings and theres nothing rail related being built(in this phase anyway).
Tracer wrote:Massport has its phase 1 haul road project out to bid. It cuts thru/behind the old tank farms and power plant(what f line mentioned earlier in the thread). It more or less follows a route a rail line to conley would need to take. I looked at the drawings and theres nothing rail related being built(in this phase anyway).Nope. Because that would require building a rail bridge across Reserve Channel next to the Summer St. bridge. And that's a little too big a leap until Conley can guarantee the traffic. The new Track 61 spur to Marine Terminal is way less expensive. Building the haul road does clear out a ROW to shiv a single track on the side of the curb much like the realigned portion of Track 61 in front of the Convention Center, so they are keeping the option open should Conley traffic merit it in the future.
There's also supposed to be a realigned intersection put in from Southie Haul Rd. to the corner of Summer and Drydock to give the Conley trucks a more straightforward path than the Pumphouse Rd. lights. That may force them to kick off work realigning Track 61 on this block for the Marine Terminal plan.