By Joshua Miller Globe Staff,Updated September 10, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
The pit where Harvard Square’s ‘The Pit’ used to be.Joshua Miller/Globe Staff
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A Thursday to ask about big spending on a hole in the ground
Readers send me many questions about Somerville and Cambridge. Here is the most frequent one: What’s the deal with the endless reconstruction of the Pit, that modest plaza behind the main entrance to the Harvard T stop that was demolished a year and a half ago? “It’s a big ugly eyesore and an accessibility barrier, and I don’t know what’s happening, and neither do most people,” one of you wrote.