The growth of the Seaport District and the announcement of General Electric coming to Boston constitute wonderful news for the city and the region.

However, allocating $100 million to restore the Northern Avenue Bridge calls for more careful consideration (“Historic waterfront span may be rebuilt,’’ Page A1, Jan. 20). The area is already gridlocked and has lost thousands of affordable parking spaces to construction of new buildings over the past decade.

Do we really want to spend $100 million to rehabilitate an old bridge, which sits a few hundred feet from a far newer bridge, and which would allow more cars into the area, where they will have nowhere to park?

The expenditure of $100 million could instead go a long way toward increasing frequency on the woefully overburdened Silver Line or boosting public transit in that area in general.

Chris O’Halloran

Stoughton