Three years after the last plans were abandoned to build community and cultural institutions over the open highway ramps that now interrupt the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a greener approach is under consideration.
The state Department of Transportation and Boston Redevelopment Authority will pay up to $150,000 to study how best to satisfy a Big Dig permitting requirement to cover the ramps, which are part of three MassDOT-owned parcels.
"These very ambitious schemes to build over the ramps appear infeasible, and we need a new plan," said BRA planning director Kairos Shen, adding they also were proposed before the Greenway became a park. "We would like to see if there is another way of mitigating the environmental impacts. Is there another kind of landscape solution as opposed to a building solution."
Past proposals for a Boston museum, YMCA community center, and arts and cultural center were deemed too costly, as building would require expensive support platforms over the subsurface highway.
MassDOT and the BRA have hired HDR Inc. as a consultant and will solicit community comment at a public meeting this month.
The requirement to "cover" the ramps was included in environmental permits for the Big Dig.
"We have become more focused on green space in the city, and so the timing … is right for a discussion of what, besides buildings, should go in that space," MassDOT spokeswoman Cyndi Roy Gonzalez said. "It's limiting for us to assume that is the only option."
The Parcel 12 ramp in the North End must be covered by November 2017 under an amendment to the state's recently passed transportation bond bill.
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