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Longfellow Bridge In It for The Long Haul With Reconstruction Project By Jay Adams CEG CORRESPONDENT
After years of planning, design, careful attention to detours and the daunting feat of procuring the proper federal and state funding, work has begun on the reconstruction of the Longfellow Bridge, the critical vehicular commuter link connecting Cambridge to Boston over the famous Charles River. According to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), the $255 million Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation Project will address the bridge’s current structural deficiencies, upgrade its structural capacity and bring it up to modern code, including improving multimodal access and bridge street connections to meet accessibility guidelines. A new American with Disabilities Act pedestrian bridge crossing adjacent to the heavily travelled Storrow Drive also will be constructed as part of this project. The Longfellow remained one of the five most important, so-called “mega projects” for their scope and cost, prioritized by Gov. Deval L. Patrick, since he first assumed office six years ago. It has received funding, like the four other “megas,” through Patrick’s Accelerated Bridge Program, a
multi-billion dollar earmark established to address and repair the dozens of decaying and aging commuter spans across the Commonwealth. The other four mega projects in the design phase are the Burns Bridge in Worcester, John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge (Interstate 95) in Amesbury and Newburyport, the Fore River Bridge in Quincy and Weymouth, and the Spaghetti Ramps (Route 79/Interstate195) in Fall River. Six Stages Over the Next Three Years More than 28,000 vehicles cross the Longfellow Bridge daily, as they have for many decades. Its stone piers and abutments have endured the effects of the moving water of the Charles River and must be heavily bolstered. In addition, there is the added critical dilemma of keeping the important MBTA Red Line subway train, which carries thousands of commuters to-and-from Cambridge and Boston, operating over the bridge daily during the three years of planned reconstruction. Advertised by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation as a design-build project to save time and money, a construction team J.F. White Contracting Company in Stoughton/Framingham, Mass., Skanska USA see lONgFEllOW page 9