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Paul McMorrow

A chance to reclaim the Esplanade

By Paul McMorrow

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  February 14, 2012

Hulking roadways are decaying across the Boston area. The Longfellow Bridge, Storrow Drive and Somerville’s McGrath-O’Brien Highway will all require major reconstruction efforts within the next several years. The end of these structures’ usable lives presents an opportunity - to correct past mistakes, reduce our over-reliance on automobiles, and make our cities more lively places. It’s the opportunity to swap engineering from the 1950s with modern, human-scale design.

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