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This is actually a current plan. A $7.6 Million contract was just awarded to widen the I-95 NB collector distributor roadway at Rte 3 to 2-lanes from the Rte 3 ramp onto the NB collector distributor roadway to Middlesex Turnpike. Crews will also reconfigure the current ramp entrance from the...

If your talking about the replacement of the Storrow Ramps, planned and funded for 2028

I know its technically Cambridge but FYI, Memorial Drive Phase III is out to bid. Bids open June 5th. $13.4 million estimated cost and 878 day completion time.

That was from 2023. They are actually almost done with this bridge now. They already completed and shifted traffic onto Phase 1 and started Phase 2 last Summer.

That was just construction materials staging/laydown yard for the contractor on the Highland Ave/Needham Street reconstruction project.

The project looks to finally be making progress. Major sticking point has been building against the river walk and River and other was a deck they wanted to build on air rights over the rear public parking lot. Enviornmental has been approved back in December (more in link) and the deck...

DCR has given notice to proceed on a contract to extend the Wayside Rail Trail from the Weston end to Jones Road in Waltham. The project will repair the old railroad bridge that runs over the commuter rail tracks.

Its a design-build project. The design was advanced to 25% and then put out to bid. The contractor then teams with a designer and they finish the design to 75% and then 100% final design, all while the contractor begins preliminary construction. Those are not bridge decks over the swamps, they...

While they are not keeping the project website up to date at all, the second largest DOT contract (I-495/I-90 interchange the largest) is ongoing in Weston/Newton. Presentation from March when it was at the MassDOT Board for approval...

Traffic is being shifted to the completed half of the new bridge today. Traffic from Boston/North End has been shifted as well as pedestrians. Traffic from Charlestown expected to be shifted this afternoon.

Waltham Begins Construction On 2.7-Mile Segment of Mass. Central Rail Trail – StreetsblogMASS Waltham has begun construction on the $9 Million, 2.7 Mile segment of the Wayside Rail Trail thru town. This project will also include traffic calming on Prospect Hill Road & Hammond Street with raised...

MWRA, they are in planning/design to install a new 24" water transmission main thru Lexington for redundancy and are looking at using the path as a possible way to connect the two existing mains.

I wanted to bump this a little bit (sorry for excitement) but I now work in the area and pass by the site almost daily. There has been a lot of surveyors out on Grove Street, the 128 ramps and the site itsself. There has also been test pits dug near the I-95 NB off ramps and along the edge of...

495/90 interchange reconstruction is already funded and ready for construction. The Design-Build contract was just advertised last week. Funded at $339 Million. Its why they accelerated the bridge replacements on the Pike this year.

Bridge girder erection began this week.

They will also be sliding the Intervale Road bridge as well that weekend. 2 bridge slides, one weekend. Also a bridge slide by MassDOT in Weymouth on Route 18 over the Commuter Rail that same weekend. And of course another rapid replacement on the Pike in Southborough. Busy weekend

The City of Waltham got notified recently that the MWRA will be installing 9,000 Feet of 36" pipe down Lexington Street from the Lexington Line (Old Friendly's) to Totten Pond Road. Work is expected to be done in 2 phases under 2 separate construction contracts. This first contract is expected...

Well, its been exactly 10 years since the 93 fast 14 project replaced 14 bridges in 10 weekends in the Summer of 2011 in Medford. Now, MassDOT is ready to do it all over again, with the "Acceler-8" project. The project will replace 8 bridges in 8 weekends this Summer on the Mass Pike I-90 in...

Glad to hear this project is finally moving forward. Looks like $13 Million in funding for design/engineering for next year. Good to also hear they decided to go with a Cut & Cover Tunnel. While it will be a pain to excavate a huge hole in the middle of Cambridge Street, its the right way to do...

T posts those updates under the Green Line Transformation project updates. While its being done at the same time as the Green Line Extension its a different project. According to their June 4th update, the Leachmere Viaduct project is overall 77% complete with a complete run down on items...