Renovation of Bus Shelter at Comeau Field & Rindge Ave ($75,000)

Rindge Avenue at Comeau Field, North Cambridge

This project entails a major redesign and renovation, with community participation, of the 83 bus shelter. New features will include acrylic panels with cut-out figures and a roof element evocative of nearby recreation and natural habitat.

This project entails the repair, redesign, and renovation of the deteriorated bus shelter at Comeau Field on Rindge Avenue in North Cambridge where the #83 bus turnaround is located.

Acrylic or plexiglass glass panels will be installed where they have been removed (please see two photo examples below). These new panels will have design elements consisting of small cut-outs in the forms of people in active recreation typical of the area -- swimming, baseball, football -- evocative of, among other things, the swimming hole history of Jerry's Pit, the former brickyards industry clay pit, immediately adjacent to the bus shelter. Some support beams will be removed from across the front of the existing shelter and the bench protruding at one end will either be modified, or restored as is.

A flat or 3-D sculptural element or elements will be mounted on the roof of the shelter, which will consist of one or more animals -- birds, for example -- appropriate to thishabitat, with possibly a human figure or figures, such as a bather or bathers, perhapswith a festive umbrella, also evocative of the recreational history, and current uses, ofthe area.

Residents and users in the immediate neighborhood will be invited to participate inconsidering, reviewing, and developing these design proposals as the project is moved along toward final completion.

The estimated cost includes materials, labor, installation, and design assistance.