Wordsworth Street, in the Orient Heights section of East Boston, is divided by the MBTA's Blue Line. There is a bridge that spans the tracks, and I took a walk over there today and talked to the gentleman who lives in the house next to the Charles Ernest Andrews Footbridge, which has been closed for about 40 years due to disrepair, vandalism and violence. According to the bridge's neighbor, someone was murdered near the span in the late 1960s, which was the final straw in the structure's useful existence. Now it's an eyesore and, also, a danger to the subway trains below. The bridge should come down.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Bridge to nowhere
Wordsworth Street, in the Orient Heights section of East Boston, is divided by the MBTA's Blue Line. There is a bridge that spans the tracks, and I took a walk over there today and talked to the gentleman who lives in the house next to the Charles Ernest Andrews Footbridge, which has been closed for about 40 years due to disrepair, vandalism and violence. According to the bridge's neighbor, someone was murdered near the span in the late 1960s, which was the final straw in the structure's useful existence. Now it's an eyesore and, also, a danger to the subway trains below. The bridge should come down.
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