A Public Information Meeting for the proposed Anderson Memorial Bridge Rehabilitation Project has been scheduled for Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 6:30 PM, in the Auditorium of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., School, 100 Putnam Avenue, Cambridge.
The purpose of this meeting is to present the Anderson Memorial Bridge Rehabilitation project, alternatives being evaluated as part of the design process and the Environmental Notification Form. Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments about the Environmental Notification Form and the project in writing by March 4, 2011. More information and copies of the Form are available on the project website at http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/charlesriverbridges/AndersonMemorialBridgeDocument.html or by contacting Michael Trepanier at Michael.Trepanier@state.ma.us. Please send copies of comments to MassDOT.
The Anderson Memorial Bridge, popularly known as the “Larz Anderson Bridge,” is a vital transportation link connecting the cities of Cambridge and Boston and the primary connection between two Harvard University campuses. The bridge is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places as an integral and contributing component of the Charles River Basin Historic District.
MassDOT is carrying out the rehabilitation project as part of the Patrick-Murray Administration's eight-year, $3 billion Accelerated Bridge Program, which is repairing or replacing structurally-deficient bridges across the Commonwealth.
Think of vehicular traffic as economic activity. Constrain transportation supply most in demand, and our economy is likewise constrained like a root bound house plant. People don't just drive around for no reason burning gas, they most often are involved in delivering product or service, or spending money. The drop in state sales tax revenues from the 1990's to 2000's on reflects people not wanting to battle congestion and ordering online from out of state, instead. Likely, impulse purchases and meals are not replaced by online purchase. So the whole scheme to congest drivers until they want to bicycle in the rain and snow is very harmful to urban economies.
Posted by: Mark Kaepplein | April 08, 2011 at 01:25 PM
I could not attend this meeting but do not understand the plan to remove one of the two vehicle lanes across the Larz Anderson Bridge from Harvard Square to Allston, when the Route 66 Bus, one of the most heavily used bus routes in the MBTA system, is currently the object of study to try to improve its dismal efficiency but it will surely be negatively impacted by a lane reduction.
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Thanks. MBTA buses 66 and 86 were included in the Anderson Memorial Traffic analysis. Also we are meeting with MBTA to discuss their services that use the bridge.
Posted by: Diana Spiegel | March 08, 2011 at 06:01 PM
Transportation planning in the United States has been automobile-centric for decades. I'm glad MassDOT is helping Boston and Cambridge take a different path.
Posted by: Dennis | March 02, 2011 at 04:42 PM
The information is good; the plan bad. MassDOT continues to worsen traffic congestion and green house gas production with downsized transportation. Giving unfair amounts of bridge and road widths to cyclists and pedestrian is the opposite of transportation equity. Worse, it changes the historical layout of the bridge.
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Posted by: Michael Jason | February 17, 2011 at 06:22 AM