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The long feared bridge closures throughout Somerville to support the Green Line Extension are scheduled to begin this Friday (why Friday?), and area residents as well as those who must travel through are bracing for the worst.
The city has done as much as it says it can to mitigate the misery that will be visited upon us. Rerouting of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, putting up signage to help direct everyone through the alternative pathways, and organizing public transportation to help get everyone through as painlessly as possible has put put in place.
It is now time to hold our collective breath as we wait and see just how impactful the whole affair will be.
Perhaps those most anxiously awaiting the consequences of the proceedings will be the various business owners located in the affected areas, notably Ball Square, which finds itself smack dab in the middle of the hullabaloo.
Many area merchants fear that they may be too cut off and inaccessible to their usual and hoped for new customers.
As difficult as it may be for all of us, let’s try to keep in mind that making a special effort to support these businesses would be a highly civic minded thing to do.
Put yourself in their place and imagine what it must feel like to be facing such an uncertain future and see what you can do to offer them some of your patronage.
After all, we’re all in this together.
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This is the problem with having such a densely-populated city. Too many people, too many cars and bikes, and too many small streets to navigate. It’s bad enough trying to move through Somerville as it is, much less when they block off main streets for marathons during the summer months. Most people coming in from outside the city probably don’t know what’s going on until they get here.
Let’s hope they get this right. They’ve had plenty of time to plan this. We may all know about this here, but you just don’t know how many people who live outside the city will know what’s going on until they get here.
Let’s also hope that it takes less time than they say it will. If Boston can fix the Commonwealth Avenue bridge in only a matter of a few weeks, I think we should be able to do the same.
Actually this is the problem with living in a city with a totally ineffective administration, elected officials, and appointed officials. They should have made a plan for this and they didn’t. What happened to the shuttle they were going to provide so the elderly and disabled could get to their re-located bus stop? Nope. Elderly and disabled be damned.
LindaS, ‘should be’ able to finish in a matter of weeks. ‘Should’ being the operative word.
t has a huge impact on our lives. And to make it worse it is something we don’t want or will ever be able to use. Even if we were able bodied. Maybe the Army corp of engineers should have been asked to help.