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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    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...
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    Comm Ave Bridge Replacement.

    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...
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    New & Renovated Boston Fire Stations

    The renovation of Engine 50's house in Charlestown just started actually. Engine 50 has been relocated to Engine 32 & Ladder 9's house.
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    Cooper Street Apartments | 20 Cooper St. | Downtown Waltham

    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...
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    Comm Ave Bridge Replacement.

    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...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    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.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    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.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    The Green Line cars are due this winter so not much more time left.
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    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...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    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.
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    General Infrastructure

    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.
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    General Infrastructure

    And this thread is off the rails.
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    Comm Ave Bridge Replacement.

    Your problem is the state spent millions rebuilding the piers 2 years ago. They arent going to do anything with those anytime soon.
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    Comm Ave Bridge Replacement.

    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.
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    Comm Ave Bridge Replacement.

    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...
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    Comm Ave Bridge Replacement.

    Dry run of the traffic set up on the Pike Scheduled for next weekend.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    FYI this work started today. Crews were grinding the path between Elm & Newton St this morning
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    DCR has just announced they will be repaving and repairing the section of the Charles River Greenway in Waltham from Elm Street to Farwell Street. The path will be closed for 2 weeks for the work.
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    128 Widening

    So I must say Barletta Heavy Division has done a great job. I drive this stretch a lot and the progress has been visible every step of the way. A very well managed project. Now the progress. The project is 67% complete and is scheduled for completion in Spring 2019. Traffic has been shifted to...
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    128 Widening

    Yes, collector-distributor roads as they are called are being built between Highland Avenue & Kendrick Street exits. Also a auxiliary lane is being added both directions between Highland Avenue and Route 9.

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