May 3, 2024
Fresh News for the Neighborhood You Love
Join the JP Historical Society and local historian Richard Heath for a walking tour of the imagination. Not one square inch remains of the Forest Hills of forty years ago; the Southwest Corridor and the Casey Arborway obliterated all architectural landmarks from that era. And yet the vista and connection that Frederick Law Olmsted once designed and supervised for the parkway between the Arboretum and Franklin Park (most of which was destroyed in 1952 for…
Remember the winter of 2015? If the 100-plus inches of snow didn’t depress you, there was the chopping down of more than a hundred trees around Forest Hills for the Casey Arborway project.
Now for the good news, nature lovers: The first trees of the mammoth project will soon be planted.
The completion date for the Casey Arborway, which had already been pushed off three months, has now been delayed another nine months. That means the mammoth project is expected to be finished a full year later than originally forecast, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.
When students and teachers at the Neighborhood School, a K1-6 school in Jamaica Plain, returned to school last September, they had all noted a change in the fabric of the community. The demolition of the Casey Overpass had begun over the summer and the construction of new surface roads brought daily traffic jams that touched almost everyone in our community.
Four months – 120 days – and the Casey Overpass is gone.
As these photographs show, it is a vastly different Casey Arborway than on May 15 when the bridge was closed.
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