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Casey Overpass to be torn down, replaced with surface roads

By Matt Rocheleau

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 09, 2012

The state announced Thursday that it will not rebuild the aging Casey Overpass that carries the Arborway over the Forest Hills MBTA station in Jamaica Plain but instead will replace the deteriorating structure with surface roads. That will save taxpayers money - the surface plan is $21 million cheaper - while replacing a hulking vestige of 1950s highway construction with something more attractive and more conducive to walking and biking as well as driving, transportation officials and advocates said.

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