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Plant could bring trucks to Somerville streets
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission says that more than sixty big heavy trucks full of wet sewer sludge will be delivered to its new processing plant every day.
But the Alford Street Bridge is not presently in any condition to accept those trucks. They weigh too much. The bridge has been under repair for many years, with no end in sight.
The site is located on the only bit of Boston that is on the Everett side of the Mystic River.
If they can't pass over the Alford Street Bridge, how would the trucks get from points in Boston to the sludge plant?
They might detour over the Tobin/Mystic River Bridge and then through the streets of Chelsea and Everett.
More likely they would take the faster route through Sullivan, up Mystic Avenue to the Fellsway, turning onto the Revere Beach Parkway and then down Alford Street.
Thus dozens of big sludge trucks could pass every day through the streets of Somerville and Everett.
The Alford Street Bridge is marked on the route of the projected Urban Ring, which is supposed to become a light rail transit line at some point in the future.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for the transit plan to materialize. Though you may need to hold your breath when those sludge trucks come banging through.