Casey At-Grade Opponent Blames Race for Decision

The state department of transportation, informed by years of public feedback, has made the decision to demolish the Casey Overpass and replace it with an at-grade network of roads to be built in 2014.

Still, opponents of this solution have blamed the decision on a variety of rhetoric both at public meetings and online.

On a blog titled Blue Mass Group, a resource of independent political information, an author named Peggy wrote a post in which she calls the ground-level solution a “nightmare,” and goes on to say the state department of transportation is carrying on a racist tradition.

“Forest Hills is a transportation hub for Mattapan, Hyde Park and some of Dorchester,” the post says. “Those people were consulted only at a few, barely publicized meetings. Jamaica Plain has been extensively consulted and is split on the issue of a new bridge, which would be much more expensive.

“DOT is following the old model of ‘Sock it to the black guy’, pioneered by the planners of the Inner Belt,” the post continues.

Public meetings regarding Casey Overpass have received heavy media exposure, and numerous public meetings have been held since the beginning stages of the project.