There is now visible progress of renovation<\/a> underway on Broad Street. Undertaken to make permanent the security put in place after 9\/11, the City and the LMDC commissioned Rogers Marvel<\/a> (forgive their website — you can find the project in the ‘On the Boards’ section) to develop less intrusive security (right now it’s pickups and Jersey Barriers<\/a>). The result will be retractable bollards, a likely unpleasant security gate, and a least one block (just south of Wall) will be covered by Eurocobble<\/a> (which doesn’t look as bad as it sounds, though the problem isn’t the city’s ability to pave a street, but rather ensuring contractors do a decent job of repair when they cut and cover). The Rogers Marvel renderings don’t do such a good job of explicating the change. Their appeal derives from the effect of having unfettered pedestrian access to that intersection. I’ll hope for a nice fence (being somewhat of a fetishist for that sort of thing; draw whatever conclusion you will about my neighborliness), but barring even that, if those drawing are anything close to the end state, it will have been a laudable effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is now visible progress of renovation underway on Broad Street. Undertaken to make permanent the security put in place after 9\/11, the City and the LMDC commissioned Rogers Marvel (forgive their website — you can find the project in the ‘On the Boards’ section) to develop less intrusive security (right now it’s pickups and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}