Berkshire Eagle - Wed December 17, 2025
An Urban Planning Study Calls for North Adams, Mass. To Remove a Highway Overpass
"Take it down."That was the message that Chris Reed, a Boston urban planner, repeated recently to dozens of people about the Massachusetts Highway 2/Mohawk Trail overpass, or Veterans Memorial Bridge, as the best way to reconnect key parts of downtown North Adams....
StreetsblogMASS - Mon October 27, 2025
MassDOT Firms Up Plans for Mystic River Pedestrian Bridge Between Somerville, Everett
A virtual hearing was hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Oct. 21, 2025, to provide an update on its planned bike and pedestrian bridge over the Mystic River between Draw Seven Park in Somerville and the Northern Strand Trail in Everett, which it expects to complete by the end of 2029....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Wed October 15, 2025
MassDOT's Newton-Weston Bridge Project Under Way
A major bridge construction project led by MassDOT began in December 2023 to replace or rehabilitate eight bridges at the I-90/I-95 interchange in Newton and Weston. The work includes the replacement of the Ramps A/B bridges over the Charles River, Ramp G over the Hultman Aqueduct, Ramp G over I-90 and the mainline I-90 bridges over both I-95 and the Charles River....
StreetsblogMASS - Tue October 14, 2025
MassDOT Highway Official Talks to Boston Group About State's Aging Roadways, Rising Costs
Massachusetts's roadways are at a "critical inflection point" with aging assets, a surge of new funding from Fair Share and an urgency to deliver safer infrastructure faster, according to Jonathan Gulliver, the state Department of Transportation's highway administrator....
StreetsblogMASS - Thu August 28, 2025
Center-Running Transitway for Boston's Green Line to Be Built Along Pair of City Streets
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the City of Boston have "tentatively" agreed to eliminate a major source of delays on the Green Line with a new dedicated transitway that will run down the middle of Huntington and South Huntington avenues in the city's Mission Hill neighborhood, StreetsblogMASS reported Aug....
StreetsblogMASS & MassDOT - Mon August 04, 2025
MassDOT to Demolish Major Century-Old Bridge in Haverhill
A quarter-billion dollar effort to replace the Basiliere Bridge across the Merrimack River in downtown Haverhill, Mass., with a new span was approved on July 30, 2025, by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) board of directors....
Massachusetts Department of Transportation & CEG - Thu June 19, 2025
MassDOT Approves $18.5B Five-Year Capital Plan; Irish Firm to Rebuild State's Travel Plazas
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) board of directors voted June 18, 2025, to approve the agency's Fiscal Year 2026-2030 Capital Investment Plan (CIP), which includes approximately $18.5 billion in planned transportation investments....
StreetsblogMASS - Tue June 17, 2025
Two Mass. Agencies at Different Stages of Transportation Projects in the City of Lynn
Nearly three years after winning a $20 million federal grant, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) hosted its first public forum on June 11, 2025, for a proposed transit-focused redesign of the Lynnway, a major highway that slices across the city of Lynn's waterfront district....
Skanska - Tue June 10, 2025
Skanska Awarded $303M Contract to Replace Rourke Bridge in Lowell, Mass.
Skanska announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to carry out the $303 million design-build of a new, relocated Rourke Bridge carrying Wood Street over the Merrimack River in Lowell, Mass....
StreetsblogMASS & PR Newswire - Wed June 04, 2025
Mystic River Bridge Project Now Delayed Until Late 2026; Adaptive Reuse Effort Kicks Off in Worcester
The Boston area might need to wait at least five more years for one of its highest-priority infrastructure projects to become a reality. StreetsblogMASS reported June 3, 2025, that a new Massachusetts capital budget for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 indicates that construction on the long-awaited Mystic River bicycle and pedestrian bridge between Somerville and Everett will not begin until late 2026 or 2027, and that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) does not expect to complete the project until the early 2030s....
