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oaf@serverx.osf.org (Oded Feingold) writes:
>>The problem with traffic on Somerville Ave is the closure of the
>>Beacon Street bridge over the railway tracks to inbound (Cambridge
>>bound) traffic.

(Speaking of traffic, someone opened the floodgates on our news link.
About five or six days' worth of backlogged postings just unloaded into
our spool directory in the last few hours.  That explains why I'd seen
a *lot* of responses last week on threads whose 'parent' posting wasn't
visible.)

In response to the above, the traffic light I'm talking about is about
1/2 mile east of the bridge Oded mentions.  Traffic seems not to get
bottlenecked much at the construction site, but gets jammed up once it
reaches the offending red light.

barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Anyone know how long they expect it to take to finish the new bridge?  It
>seems to be going pretty slowly.

Yeah, it does look like some contractor is milking the project for all
it's worth.  If there were sufficient motivation, like a war or something,
my guess is they could finish a project like that in a couple of weeks or
even less.  A friend of mine who lives across the street from this site
says they "made a lot of mistakes" which had to be corrected, and that
progress seems to be speeding up lately.

Rumor has it they'll be done by November.

While we're talking about that neighborhood, anyone have any theories as
to why the People's Republic of Cambridge is getting attacked severely
by graffiti artists the last couple of weeks (at least, along the northern
section of Mass. Ave.)?

-rich