Morrissey Boulevard

The Morrissey Boulevard is a designed as a six-lane Parkway coastal road in Boston's Dorchester, Massachusetts in the United States. The road is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR ) and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.

Route

The Parkway begins in the south at Neponset Circle, where he provides connection to the Southeast Expressway ( identical route of U.S. Highway 1 / Interstate 93 / Massachusetts Route 3 ) and the Massachusetts Route 3A and 203. The road from there north through the districts of Neponset and Popes Hill, which is located on both sides of the street commercial areas, and splits before the underpass under the tracks of the MBTA Red Line in two separate, each three-lane roadways that after the underpass again converge. In this way, at this point, where once the Popes Hill station of the Old Colony Railroad was, by connecting ramps also a change of direction possible. In the northbound carriageway is also on the Tenean Street a driveway to Tenean Beach, part of the reserve Dorchester Shores Reservation.

The Morrissey Boulevard leads for approximately 0.5 mi ( 0.8 km ) further north through the densely built-up commercial areas to Freeport Street, where it passes again under the Expressway. On the eastern side of the underpass, an exit from the Expressway north direction leads to the Morrissey Boulevard. There also is a highly visible, 140 ft ( 42.7 m) high tank for liquefied natural gas, which was decorated by the artist Corita Kent with her ​​work Rainbow Swash, which is the largest protected by copyright artwork in the world.

The Parkway continues across the bascule bridge John J. Beades Memorial Bridge in the Savin Hill Bay, where in particular the beaches Savin Hill Beach and Malibu Beach and the Savin Hill Yacht Club and the war memorial for Vietnam veterans are accessible that in the immediate neighborhood are to Savin Hill and part of the Boston Harbor Walk are.

In the course of Morrissey Boulevard passes among others at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston College High School, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Boston Globe. The road ends at Kosciuszko Circle at Columbia Point, where she provides connection to the Day Boulevard and Columbia Road.

History

The first documents the road dating back to the year 1906, when it was designed as an urban parkway along the course of the Old Colony Railroad as a bypass road for motorists in the direction of Quincy and South Shore. Planning continued for nearly two decades and could be completed only in 1924. At this time, the Old Colony Road Parkway called.

The originally planned route parallel to the tracks, however, was not realized, as made ​​in the meantime land fills allowed a better reacted route along the shoreline of Dorchester Bay. In 1951 the street was renamed William T. Morrissey Boulevard to remember the same, former chairman of the Metropolitan District Commission ( predecessor of the Department of Conservation and Recreation ).