Richard Heath
Casey Arborway work, March 11, 2015.
The community began this week to see the changes for the $60 million-plus Casey Arborway.
Back-to-back February blizzards slowed the construction of the westbound temporary lanes but that time was made up this week as Barletta Heavy Construction crews finished the work with protective barriers.
A work zone along the Arborway busyard was prepared after clearing of the trees planted 26 years ago for the Southwest Corridor Project. A temporary parking lot for the courthouse will be built in the yard. This area will be landscaped into a bike path when the new parkway is completed. Crosby Schlesinger Smallwood, the landscape architects working with Massachusetts Department of Transportation landscape architect George Batchelor, has marked all trees to be preserved and these have been protected with wooden slats.
As traffic engineer Gary McNaughton explained at the 
