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[Urbaner]

JimmyGreaves, on Mar 13 2009, 02:33 PM, said:

Where has it been reported that they are going to demolish houses?

They probably removed the buildings for rendering purposes only. This is typically done with architectural renderings because it's often impossible to view a stucture in full from a normal perspective.

[brick]

JimmyGreaves, on Mar 13 2009, 01:33 PM, said:

Where has it been reported that they are going to demolish houses?

It was just a snarky comment about the fact that the render contains no context.

[Cotuit]

JimmyGreaves, on Mar 13 2009, 02:33 PM, said:

Where has it been reported that they are going to demolish houses?

I don't know if he was joking because the rendering is not set in context at all. But I did read a report that they were building a temp bridge between the current one and Division Street. I'm not sure if that is still the plan, or even if that is the plan if it would include demos.

ETA: Oh, I didn't read the last page.

ETA: Looking at a map, it appears they have room for a temp bridge without demoing any buildings.

[brick]

Just FTR I feel they kind of went above and beyond just giving a view.  Part of the promise is that it would work contextually with the Division St. Bridge, that's not even in the render.  They appear to have guessed at the grade differences between Pleasant and Taft, and Division St. doesn't appear at all.  I understand the architechtural need to show the bridge but that render may as well be of a 4 year old's lego set.  It has so little context as to be rendered (get it?) useless.  This is far from a big deal, I just can't let something go without a joke.

Edited by brick, 13 March 2009 - 02:26 PM.

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Official Bridge 550 design presentation on Tuesday, April 28, 6 - 8 pm at the Visitors Center Theatre. Ironically, it was pitched to me as a chance for the community to give input. Kinda late, doncha think? Click to TBB for my seething analysis where I continue to push the race button.

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Pawtucket Times:  "Public invited to view Pawtucket bridge design"

http://www.pawtucket...nt/view/79118/1

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Pawtucket’s new bridge to somewhere"

http://www.projo.com...v9.2fcd978.html

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Important information about the bridge 550 construction project available now on The Bucket Blog.