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Before seeing the newest iteration of Harvard’s plans, we argued that the new undergraduate Houses should be located over the Weeks Footbridge next to the Business School because it is physically closer to the existing Houses. The combination of a student center, a pedestrian park stretching to the river, and an efficient shuttle system on the site currently occupied by the athletic fields, however, will do more to unite the Allston Houses than mere physical proximity. Harvard should implement all three proposals and locate the Houses in the athletic facilities area...
Reacting to Harvard’s plan to bury Soldiers Field Road and build a new pedestrian bridge across the Charles, Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin was quoted in The Boston Globe as making the nonsensical, inflammatory remark, “The University is treating the river like some moat that they own.” Only a politician with deep-seated animosity towards our fair University would openly deride such an ingenious plan to beautify Boston at no taxpayer expense. It should come as little surprise that Galvin sports a thick Boston accent...
...intersection of Mass Ave. and JFK and Brattle streets. The walkway connecting Out of Town and the Coop—which an Improvement Project report has dubbed “the super crosswalk”—will be widened, with additional curb ramps and new pedestrian signals installed, according to Tomeu. The improvement project is supported by the Harvard Square Business Association and is the result of a report commissioned by property owners—”Polishing the Trophy”—published in 1998. Construction began this past...
...When we get into the weekends, and we get into parties and alcohol gets involved, pulling fire alarms gets to be a sport,” he says. “But they’re playing Russian roulette. If a pedestrian was killed by the firemen rushing to get there, they could be charged with involuntary manslaughter...
Matisse’s subway soundmakers, says Holton, are “a very humanistic idea” that try “to intersperse...the very pedestrian day-to-day existence of someone waiting on a platform” with scientific phenomena...