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Article: Future ; of the ; AIR BASE; Abington sees flaw in revised base plan; Selectmen don't want Union Street to stay a dead end; ONLINE
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- March 15, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
ABINGTON - Many Rockland and Weymouth residents were relieved to
see that the recently revised plan for redeveloping the closed South
Weymouth Naval Air Station calls for Union Street to remain a dead
end in both towns.
But some Abington officials are unhappy with the change.
At selectmen's meeting last night, Selectman Kathy Lavin said that
if the Union Street entrance to the base remains closed, Abington
will "suffer the traffic on its residential roads" as people use the
three entrances on Route 18 in Weymouth.
Once a busy route between Rockland Center and Weymouth's Columbian
Square, Union Street was cut off in the 1950s so the Navy could build
an east-west runway on ...