

2018 Update #62
A Year Nearly Past It’s the holiday season and the end of 2018 is quickly drawing near! Before we check in with the project, I want to say a quick thank you to all who have gotten in touch with questions and suggestions and words of encouragement this year. I’m glad to be your eyes and ears on the project. I hope I’ve captured some of what this construction project looks like up close, in words and pictures. And so this construction project’s first big season is also drawin


2018 Update #61
Post-Construction Triangle Park and Lazarus Park Take Shape We now have a good sense of what Triangle Park, that central piece of downtown green space at the corner of Main Street and Merchants Row, and the brand-new Lazarus Park, which will sit alongside the roadway connecting Main Street to the Marble Works, will look like once construction is completed in 2021. On Tuesday evening, the Selectboard unanimously endorsed the Agency of Transportation’s recommended design concep


2018 Update #60
Drone Encore, Another Landscape Design Update, Hot Coffee, Hot Lunch I’m bringing back the VTrans Aviation drone footage that I’ve been sharing with you for a final encore. This one, rather humbly titled “Hole in Ground,” gives you a good, if somewhat vertigo-inducing, bird’s eye view of the Launch Pit in the final stages of boring through to Receiving Pit 3 (which is visible at the end of the video). The steel casing that forms the perimeter of the drainage tunnels is seen