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Parking or no parking. Sidewalks or no sidewalks. Trees and green space. Room for bike travel. Stone walls. All of these things and more were considered by a couple dozen residents last month at a public meeting to review options for a redesigned Main Street. The residents weighed in on a host of different plans Read the full article → from Selectmen and Planning Board to consider Main Street plans

The town has held a number of public meetings to share information about and get feedback on the reconstruction of Main Street, and the next in the series will be on Thursday night. The town’s first design was rejected by Mass Highway earlier this year. Since then, the town and project engineers Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Read the full article → from Help shape the future of Main Street

The project to overhaul Main Street hit a speedbump earlier this year when MassHighway rejected the town’s initial design. Since then, the town has been working with new consultants to come up with a revised proposal. You’ll get a chance to hear about the redesign at a public meeting on Thursday. At the meeting, project Read the full article → from Public meeting on Main Street reconstruction project

I couldn’t attend the public meeting about the Main Street reconstruction project on Wednesday night, but about 15 residents turned up to voice their opinions. Planning on the project hit a snag recently when the state rejected Southborough’s preliminary plans citing safety concerns. You can read the full details from the DPW, but the issue Read the full article → from Plotting a new direction for Main Street

At a public hearing on Monday night, Town Planner Vera Kolias outlined the statutory steps the town would need to go through to get utility lines along Main Street buried undergound, and that road likely leads to a vote at the special town meeting next fall. But one big piece that’s missing right now is Read the full article → from Cost estimates for Main Street undergounding still unknown

Hot off the presses, here are the latest in a series of images showing what Main Street could look like without above-ground utility wires. This set of  images show Main Street near the Common (in front of the Library). They depict what the area might look like after the Main Street reconstruction project and utility Read the full article → from More pretty pictures of Main Street

A few weeks ago I asked you to envision Main Street without its telephone poles and crisscross of wires. Now the Main Street Council, the group leading the effort to bury underground the utility lines along Main Street, has made that easy. Council Co-chair Dennis Flynn emailed me some visions shots of what Main Street Read the full article → from What Main Street could look like

You know when you’re at a party and and you have a conversation with someone who has a bit of spinach stuck in their teeth, and the spinach is all you can focus on, no matter how interesting the conversation might be? That’s how I feel when I drive down Main Street, except instead of Read the full article → from Light blight on Main Street

I have to admit, I never paid much attention to the crisscross of wires above Main Street, they were just part of the landscape. But what if they weren’t? What if instead of telephone poles, the road was lined with trees, grass borders, and unobstructed sidewalks? That’s the vision the Main Street Council laid out Read the full article → from Going wireless on Main Street