1265 Main LLC developer of Polaroid property in Waltham has committed to $500,000 in funding to help build the Wayside rail trail from there Property to Lexington Street. They have also agreed to fund the design of a new pedestrian bridge over I-95 to replace the rail bridge to carry the Wayside...
A few reasons. They wanted to maintain pedestrian, bike and transit traffic (buses) across the bridge and maintain a way for emergency vehicles to still get through. The other major reason is they decided to avoid unwanted and unneeded delays they would relocate all the utilities. All utilities...
All these buildings are are vertical lumber yards during construction. It's despicable. I have several friends on Waltham Fire who risked there lives putting this fire out. The layout was terrible even if it was made of concrete and steel. 5 separate building units interconnected by 5 floors of...
The major bridge replacement work begins NEXT WEEK
7:00PM on Wednesday July 26th: Green Line B branch shutsdown
7:00PM on Thursday July 27th: Commonwealth Avenue between Packards Corner & Kenmore Square as well as Boston University Bridge close to private vehicular & truck traffic.
9:00PM on...
Bike lanes have been striped on Lexington Street in Waltham from Windsor Village to Curve Street. It even is a buffered bike lane northbound at the High School.
The City of Waltham striped a section of Lexington Street near Lake Street with the new road diet configuration with bike lanes. It's currently grooved pavement and is being used to show people what the new set up will be when paving is completed.
Starting Monday June 26th the 558 bus route will be changing eliminating 2 stops on Spruce Street while relocating 2 others onto Crescent Street.
Bus stops to be eliminated are .....
-2 bus stops on Spruce Street near Post Office (both inbound and outbound)
-1 inbound bus stop on Spruce near...
The City of Waltham has awarded a contract for $409,310 for the design of the 3-mile section of the Wayside Rail Trail in the city. This is a milestone and is a very long time coming.
Has anyone else heard the plan to close off access from Charles River Road in Watertown from the Watertown Square intersection? I just heard of this tonight.
To do that over the bridge you would have to seriously reinforce the piers holding up the bridge to handle the extra weight and redesign the entire bridge to hold extra weight.
Comm Ave bridge project dry run.
At 11:59pm on June 2nd thru 5:00am on June 5th a zipper barrier will be deployed narrowing I-90 the Mass Pike to 2 lanes in each direction from the old Allston-Brighton Tolls to the Beacon Street overpass. One entire barrel will be closed at a time with all...