Word: rails
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...have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig—a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
However, a number of obstacles stand in the way of development—the property is crisscrossed by miles of iron and concrete, cut in two pieces by the turnpike, and dominated by rail lines owned by CSX—which has rights to use the land in perpetuity...
Harvard already owns nearly 300 acres across the river in Allston, land similarly riddled with rail yards and auto body shops—and the site of Harvard’s much celebrated but as-yet undefined campus of the future...
Like the nearby parcel Harvard already owns, the potential of the new land is severely limited by its tenants, the CSX rail yards and the turnpike itself...
...spokesperson Robert Sullivan would not comment on the company’s future plans for its rail yards in Allston, but emphasized the importance of the site for its freight services...