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Lee town officials are considering a redesign of the T intersection at Main, Park and West Park streets, in front of Carr Hardware. The new design would be similar to
The Herald News Six SouthCoast cities and towns were recently awarded funding for new traffic safety measures, trail connections, bikeshare stations, bus facilities and areas for outdoor dining and community activities. Dighton, Fairhaven, Raynham, Somerset, Swansea and Taunton were among 77 municipalities across the state that applied for and received a total of $6.5 million in funding from the Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program. The program provides technical and funding assistance to help Massachusetts municipalities conceive, design, and implement changes to curbs, streets, plaza...
Baker-Polito administration announces $6.5 million awarded to municipalities COURTESY OF BAKER-POLITO ADMINISTRATION Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito joined acting transportation secretary and CEO Jamey Tesler and highway administrator Jonathan Gulliver in Dedham to announce the award of $6.5 million total to cities and towns which applied for funding from the Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program. The program provides technical and funding assistance to help Massachusetts municipalities conceive, design and implement changes to curbs, streets, plazas and parking areas in support of public...
FRAMINGHAM — The city’s Highway Division has received a $200,000 Shared Streets and Spaces grant to improve pedestrian accessibility on a section of School Street. “Our Public Works team is very appreciative of the Baker-Polito administration and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for this grant opportunity,” Public Works Director Blake Lukis said in a statement. “It is vital to keep investing and improving Framingham’s public infrastructure. Construction is slated to begin later this year. The Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program provides cities and towns with gran...
Beth DeCarbo -- Globe Correspondent June 23, 2021 12:42 pm Residents in a western enclave of Concord would like to walk or bike to the newly opened Bruce Freeman Rail Trail nearby. But crossing busy Route 2A is unsafe because a roughly 2,000-foot stretch along the road lacks both sidewalks and crosswalks. “My son wants to play with kids who live on the other side of 2A. So we get in the car and drive him 200 feet and drop him off,’’ said Caroline Mahoney, a mother of four whose neighborhood is cut off from a number of parks and paved paths by 2A.