The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 19

Nineteen $5,000,000 Sullivan Sq. Project Will End Worst Traffic Bottleneck THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBETUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1951 Traffic Viaducts water which might rise above the ground surface on the outside. A The great viaduct or bridge which will carry traffic between down pumping station with three pumps, each with a capacity of 1500 gal town Boston and Somerville has IP JL riceless yet it costs you nothing Ions a minute, is heing built to take care of this. That's just an outline of major features. four lanes, separated by a four-foot dividing strip.

Traffic outward bound from Boston reaches it by By K. S. BARTLETT "Over and Under and Around!" That might be the theme song for the huge traffic interchange at Sullivan sq. All about the M. T.

A. station men are working on the T'f The 'soldier beams" turned out to be heavy steel beams which stand straight and stiff like soldiers be ing reviewed by top brass, against AC BOSTON way of a ramp leadingoff from the new section of Rutherford av. and leaves it on another coming down to Mystic av. Traffic from Somer-ville and parts thereabouts comes over Broadway, which becomes Main st. at the Boston-Somerville line, and then uses a ramp leading up to the inbound lanes of the viaduct.

It leaves the viaduct by another ramp leading down on to old Rutherford av. Cars not using either the viaduct or the tunnel -stay on the surface roads and in many cases pass through the great rotary traffic circle which will be built in Sullivan sq. itself. See the point of the "Over, Under and Around" theme song? The viaduct is the "Over," the tunnel is the "Under" and the surface roads and rotary are the "Around." Those are the three levels of the interchange. Folks working around Sullivan sq.

or parking their cars in that section and using the M. T. A. to go in town aren't forgotten. There is a special bridge for them from a Doint near the Schrafft plant right into the station.

All in all, it's quite a job this Charlestown Traffic Interchange. The Continental's famous fitting and alterations service cannot' be measured in dollars and cents. It's an insurance policy that underwrites your appearance; it guarantees your satisfaction, your self-assurance, your poise; it adds immeasurably to the value of your clothing dollars without adding one cent to the cost of your clothes. no charge for alterations at the Continental BROKEN BOTTLENECK Norbert Quinn, Globe artist, draws his conception of how Sullivan Square is going to look when project is completed. The drawing is based on the "view of grade separations" by Thomas Worcester, consulting engineers.

CD CD KT IF KITE Ef TT-' A -H' iw BOYLSTON AT WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY 9:30 TO 8:30 PARTS OF SULLIVAN SQUARE traffic interchange. Top right, M. T. A. station and tracks.

Top center, ramps leading to and from the viaduct or overpass which will cross the open space at center and join up with the section at lower left where girders have' just been placed. lowered tne water table that is the ground water in the area around $5,000,000 project of the State Department of Public Works designed to break what has been called the state's 'worst the tunnel excavation, a mat of concrete was laid down on the tun nel floor. On this mat go six layers of membrane water-proofing ma traffic bottleneck. terial which is made of asphalt-impregnated cloth. There's a layer of asphalt between each layer of cloth.

On these layers goes the Some are placing "ballast concrete" in the floor of the tunnel. Others are operating bulldozers or giant cranes, setting "soldier beams," placing ballast concrete which may run up to 12-feer thick in some places. On top of this is the actual structural bed of the road which is like that of any modern state highway. The layers of waterproofing and ana tne ballast concrete cover the whole floor of the tunnel extending clear under the walls. These walls also contain the waterproofing ma terial.

"The whole tunnel is really en closed in a waterproof huge steel girders for the overpass. At ground level in or near the square, men are digging deep for "pier footings" or "exploratory operations" intended to maJte sure the underground pipes and conduits which carry the arteries, nerves and other vital parts of the public utilities systems aren't damaged. Work on new roads is underway. Changes are being made, in railroad tracks. This Sullivan sq.

job carries quite a lot of superlatives. It is the biggest single project in a relatively small area which Public Works has ever undertaken. It's the first three-level traffic interchange in Massachusetts. It's the first in which Berkover explained as he pointed out various phases of the work There are other precautions against flooding such as a system of pipes in the walls to carry off any ground the timbers which keep the sides of the cut from caving until the per manent walls of reinforced concrete are finished. Then the "soldier beams" are removed.

The diagonal braces, heavy steel girders braced against the timbers, are withdrawn through openings left in the per manent walls. The openings are sealed. Find Wooden Pipes In and around the square are various holes. Berkover pointed to huge pipes at the bottom of several. Most were solid looking affairs, but in one of the excavations a man was swinging a sledge hammer on a piece of old piping.

It was, the Public Works man explained an old water pipe long disused. None of the diggings turned up the Brink or Capt Kidds treasure but they did un cover some relics of old days. Pilings of wharfs were found dating from the times when ships sailed in near Sullivan sq. which is on a solid tongue of land in the center of a now filled area. There were quite a lot of ancient wooden pipes once used for carrying water.

L'Jontiiicntal Month. Event Ho. They are still in fair condition. A special bridge is being built to handle the public utilities, water, gas. electricity, telephone lines, etc, Then there's the matter of railroad bridges.

There is a new one to re place the bridge on which Mystic av. now crosses the main line of tne Boston Maine Railroad There's another for the B. M. spur tracKS wnicn take freight cars across Rutherford av. Public Works says that the B.

M. has not had to reschedule any of its main line trains and that freight has been kept moving on the spur tracks. Relocate Streets Public Works has had to take elaborate precautions against hydrostatic pressure. The last translated means that since the tunnel bottom in places is 25 feet below the mean sea level of nearby Boston Hrrbor and the Charles and Mystic Rivers it might be heaved up by the pressure of water seepage but for these same precautions. "The Chartestown Interchange at Sullivan said Public Works Commissioner William Callahan, "will be one of the major points in the Greater Boston vehicular travel pattern.

This section was the victim of too rapid development caused by the sudden increase in the use of automobiles and trucks. What was one day a huge square located north of the downtown section of Boston became a bottleneck through which 60.000 cars passed daily. "The clean-cut lines of new construction can be clearly viewed now find by early Summer at least 70,000 vehicles will be using the new interchange." And it's believed without the maddening, time-losing and often money-losing delays which were commonplace there. A Few Statistics Over in one of the tiny field offices on the edge of the old Sullivan Square Playground I found Jacob Berkover of Lynn, veteran of 25 years with Public Works. He's the resident engineer or more formally, the principal civil engineer for Public Works on the job.

That means that with his assistant, James D. Ambrosia, his job is to see that the specifications of the contracts are carried out, to act as a kind of liaison officer between the department, the contractor, the public utilities groups, th heads of various businesses in th area and the like. 1 He's a little man, courteous, kindly and patient but those who know him sav he's not only very able, but can, when necessary, be very, very tough. The contractor for the principal Job is the De Matteo Construction Company whose bid was $4,133,550 and the Westcott Construction Company which has contracted for the railroad bridges on Mvstic ave. and Main st.

for $646,166. There are many subcontractors. Just a few statistics. There'll be 5.500,000 pounds of re-enforcing steel and 6,000,000 pounds of structural steel used in the job Some 300,000 cubic yards of earth, stone, mud, have been exca-vated and the filling material runs to 150.C00 cubic yards of gravel There'll be 80,000 cubic yards of concrete, including 34.000 yards of concrete. There are hundreds, in fact, thousands of other Citems.

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