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Today and for about the next six weeks, contractors will be drilling test borings below the Pfc. Ralph T. Basiliere Bridge over the Merrimack River as part of completing designs to replace the nearly 100-year-old structure. A subcontractor to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation will be investigating underground conditions. Officials said determining subsurface conditions around […]

(Additional photograph below.) Haverhill’s new Pfc. Ralph T. Basiliere will have four travel lanes, a central pedestrian overlook and feature familiar arches and vertical elements that pay homage to the current 1925-era structure that will start coming down on the summer or fall of its 100th birthday. The early draft design, called an open spandrel […]

An idea of what the new PFC Ralph T. Basiliere Bridge will look like will be shown during next month’s latest public information session. Officials of the state Department of Transportation say they will share the results of the last eight months of work by the design team. The development concept will be unveiled Wednesday, […]

Draft concepts of a planned replacement of the Pfc. Ralph T. Basiliere Bridge are expected to be shown during a third public meeting in mid-May. Massachusetts Department of Transportation officials the early designs are a result of a public workshop earlier this month at Haverhill Public Library. The workshops “seek community input on the new […]

A workshop, focusing on the appearance of a future Pfc. Ralph T. Basiliere Bridge over the Merrimack River, is set to take place the first week of April. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is having its second public meeting on the three-year bridge replacement project Monday, April 3, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., at the Haverhill Public […]