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Article: Debate the Greenway now

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June 8, 2009
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MAYORAL ELECTIONS should offer a choice between competing versions of the future, and few things will affect Boston's historic heart more than development along the Rose Kennedy Greenway. And yet a Greenway study commissioned by the Menino administration is less likely to foster a spirited discussion than to delay it until after this fall's election.

The city doesn't control the Greenway itself, but it does control what gets built along either side. At Mayor Menino's direction, the Boston Redevelopment Authority has funded a broad study meant to yield guidelines for such development. Fair enough, but the study, which promises to consider environmental, urban design, transportation, and ...

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