Infrastructure

Expected to last around eight years once it gets underway, the MBTA’s planned replacement of a key 93-year-old railroad drawbridge over the Charles River will have minimal effects on commuters, state officials promised Thursday. MBTA General Manager Phil Eng, MassDOT Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt, and Gov. Maura Healey were among those gathered below the departures board in Boston’s North Station,...

Massachusetts will get nearly half a billion dollars in federal money to help replace a drawbridge connecting North Station to railways north of Boston, Gov. Maura Healey’s office announced Monday. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the MBTA $472 million in so-called MEGA grant funding for the North Station Draw One bridge replacement project. A T official said that...

Aging infrastructure in Massachusetts has faced the relentless forces of time and nature, with crumbling concrete, exposed rebar, and rusted steel visible on bridges across the state. What lies beneath the surface is equally crucial in determining the safety of nearly 8,000 bridges that residents rely on daily. Bill Colleran, an Underwater Operations Engineer with the MassDOT Bridge Inspection Dive…

Federal transportation officials are providing $5 billion to replace or improve aging bridges in 16 states, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

Boston City Council is looking to help homeowners along private roadways afford repairs. Many of the city’s streets have fallen into disrepair as locals grapple with the costs associated with repaving. District 5 City Councilor Enrique Pepen called for a hearing on the issue and says it’s critical to ease the strain on these constituents. “It’s getting to a...

$4.5B – that’s the price tag to replace both the Sagamore and Bourne bridges, which are in desperate need of an overhaul.

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When the two bridges to Cape Cod are finally built, Massachusetts will own them, not the federal government, under a new agreement announced Thursday that Gov. Maura Healey hailed as “an important step forward in our efforts to replace the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges.” That agreement between Massachusetts and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commits $700 million from the…

One of the busiest streets in Somerville, Massachusetts, is also one of its most treacherous. Travel in any direction on Highland Avenue, and you’re in for a bumpy ride. “Like a horse riding on the rodeo, ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom,” said Andy McGrath. The potholes, patches and uneven pavement are fraying nerves and testing patience. It even inspired a “My...

Drivers in Somerville are growing frustrated with the condition of a major road.

Massachusetts has received hundreds of millions in federal funding as part of a plan to replace the two bridges to Cape Cod, leaders announced Friday. Gov. Maura Healey said her administration is celebrating after learning the state would get $372 million, the full amount it applied for from the Federal Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program in August. “This is a…

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has filed an application requesting $1.06 billion in federal grant funding toward the project to replace the Cape Cod bridges. The replacement of the aging Sagamore Bridge and Bourne Bridge has become a priority for Massachusetts lawmakers, including Gov. Maura Healey. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have been pushing for federal funding for the…

The floods this week in Massachusetts that put a few dams at risk have raised concern the structures may increasingly be at risk as the region is hit by stronger and wetter storms. There are thousands of dams across New England and many were built decades if not centuries ago, often to help power textile mills, store water or supply…

Data from the National Inventory of Dams paints a picture of how many dams in Massachusetts pose a significant danger to human life and what condition they were in when last inspected

Officials flagged two dams as being severely damaged by the flash flooding in Leominster on Monday. According to the Mass Office of Dam Safety, the Barrett Park Pond Dam was last inspected on November 18, 202. Federal data shows it was in poor condition when it was inspected in 2017.   The Fall Brook Reservoir Dam was last inspected on November…

Healey’s office said the administration still intends to replace both bridges, but wants to start with the Sagamore because of its higher traffic volumes and its bigger role in the Cape’s economy.

After previous efforts to secure federal funding for replacement of both Cape Cod bridges stumbled, Gov. Maura Healey and her deputies will shift to a phased approach that first targets money primarily for the Sagamore Bridge. Healey’s office said the administration will submit applications in the coming weeks for a combined $1.45 billion in federal grants, most of which would…

President Joe Biden on Monday said that high-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity,” as he pledged that every household in the nation would have access by 2030 using cables made in the U.S.