Wow...there has been so much change in our area.  Its not the same place we grew up in!  I used to travel over that bridge everyday to go to high school.  Danny used to work at that DD that you love going to.  Taking the train will now be a pain in the ass.  It will be weird because the Hyde Park-Dedham connection will be gone for a while.  What's next, they tear down the movie theater?  (Well they should.  That place was a dump in 1996.)

 

They should tear that down for sure, but the bridge!?  Nooo!!  I forgot to mention I also go to that McDonald's and Taco Bell.  Arghh!  I totally forgot about that Taco Bell!  Why does shit like this always happen to me!? 

The upside to the bridge being closed is maybe we won't get a lot of Hyde Park people coming into Dedham anymore.  :) 

 

I've been on said bridge when we went down to your place. First of all - they did the same thing in Fitchburg when we lived there, and it was my fastest route to route 2 so that lil detour cost me 40 extra minutes. I feel your pain. However, the way they did it (since if they TORE it down and rebuilt it would require ALSO shutting down rt. 2 and they didn't want to do that) so it was closed for....get this....THREE WEEKS. That was it. Have a talk with them, Joe. I mean, Jesus, the Zakim only too 4 years to build....have you seen the size of it? 4 years! Anything that hinders someone's ability to get coffee is...jesus....it just hurts.

You want to picket?  I will soooo join that line with you! My boy needs coffee!  I'll bring the coffee you bring the big poster boards we can put on ourselves....I'll bring a few crappy bras we can burn if need be too.

 

Only three weeks!?  Thats awesome!  Its going to take 2 years because I live here and I need that bridge.  If I didn't need that bridge, it would be replaced in a much shorter time.  Look how big and wide the Zakim is!!  4 years for that, and 2 years to replace and built a bridge 1/16th the size of the Zakim.  That doesn't make sense now does it?  Do the math and it comes out to 3 months.

I forgot to mention the nearest McDonald's, D'Angelos, Subway, Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut are over that bridge.  Not anymore!  Thanks construction!  Hope your pockets get nice and fat off of my tax dollars working on a project that should only take a few months tops.... *sigh*.  I REALLY REALLY hate this state sometimes, a lot of the time. 

 

sadly, i never got to know this bridge, the first time i came around the detore was already in effect.  i have, however looked at the pictures of this bridge, and i've concluded its a shame to tear it down.  not everything thats old is bad, and this bridge has a really nice estetic quality to it.
More importantly, it inconviences my Joey, which is NOT cool.  It deprives him of his coffee!  and whats more, it adds 10 minutes to the time it takes for him to get to my house!!!  Thats 10 additional minutes of agony while I breathlessly await his arrival.  Also not cool. 
I think its time to plant some mooninites.

 

Thanks for your support.  Defiently not cool.  Not cool at all.  Somehow, I will just have to get by.  When I go places, I'm gonna have to tac on a bunch of minutes.  There is an upside, fewer truck and car traffic.  Quiter days and nights, which will be awesome during the summer when we can open windows again.