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Article: JULY FOURTH PLANS HIT BUMP IN ROAD PART OF MEMORIAL DRIVE MAY CLOSE TO SPECTATORS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2003
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CAMBRIDGE - Some of the best viewing and listening space for the
Fourth of July fireworks and Boston Pops concert could be off limits
this year, as organizers said yesterday they plan to block off about
a half-mile of sidewalk and street along Memorial Drive between the
Longfellow and Massachusetts Avenue bridges.
Jersey barriers border part of the construction area along
Memorial Drive, where work on a road rehabilitation project has left
several holes two feet deep that pose a danger to the tens of
thousands of spectators who each year stake out a spot across the
river from where the Boston Pops play at the Hatch Shell.
While the organizers stressed that they may meet again before July ...