By WHAV Staff |
Cranes lift elements into place at new I-495 bridge in Haverhill. (Courtesy photograph.)
Installation of temporary and permanent protective barriers adjacent to southbound bridge construction along Interstate 495 in Haverhill requires daytime lane closings this week.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation reports a single, southbound right lane and the right shoulder closes between exits 50 and 49 on Monday and Tuesday, May 10 and 11, from 9 a.m.-2- p.m., for installation of a temporary barrier.
A single right lane also closes between exits 49 and 48 on Wednesday and Thursday, May 12 and 13, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., to complete construction of cement barriers in front of piers below the Ward Hill and River Street overpasses.
Cape Cod Times
HYANNIS – Laura Isbrandt and Jim Berube initially intended to buy a home on the Cape when they decided to relocate from the South Shore.
Berube, who owns D&M Inflatables in Rockland, wants to expand his business over the bridge. The couple searched for a house for three months before giving up.
Then one day they came across what they were looking for . at the Cape Cod Times building. We were walking down Main Street and came in here, Isbrandt said of the new Residences at 319 Main & Ocean. We tossed everything in the air and said, We re not going to any more open houses.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the newly reconstructed New Road Bridge located over the West Branch of the Housatonic River will be reopened to traffic in the late afternoon on Friday, May 7. The bridge was closed on Feb. 26, 2020, to allow crews to replace the existing bridge and upgrade existing utilities. The cost of the bridge rehabilitation project is $1,734,102. The contractor for the project is JH Maxymillian. The new 67-foot single-span precast, prestressed concrete NEXT, or Northeast Extreme Tee, beam superstructure will be supported by a cast-in-place reinforced concrete abutments. The new bridge will also be wider with a 28-foot roadway width providing two 10-foot-wide traffic lanes and two 4-foot-wide shoulders that will also accommodate pedestrians.