Friday, September 28, 2012
Asked about toll fairness during a Patch live chat, Governor Deval Patrick asked a reader whether he'd support high-speed tolls. Are these a good way to share the transportation funding pain, or another money grab?
Are high-speed tolls along Interstate 93 and other highways a smart way to help fund transportation in the state? Governor Deval Patrick mentioned such a system during a Patch live chat on Thursday. If you've gone up Interstate 95 into New Hampshire, you've seen high-speed tolling in action. The system is designed to read your EZ-Pass (nee Fast Lane) transponder while you breeze by at 65 miles per hour. There's no need to slow down or squeeze though a booth, as EZ-Pass users currently do on the Mass Pike, Tobin Bridge and harbor tunnels. The chat moved on to other topics, so no details about implementation were offered. What do you think? Would tolls along I-93 offer some fairness to riders in Boston, MetroWest and North Shore, who all pay…
Friday, July 22, 2011
This weekend's road and exit closures due to the I-93 bridge replacement project.
Over the course of the last six weekends, MassDOT has demolished and replaced nine of the fourteen bridges that are a part of the93Fast14 bridge replacement project on I-93. All of the bridge replacements will be complete by the end of August. This weekend’s work locations involve the bridge on I-93 South over Route 28 South (Fellsway)/Valley Street in Medford and the center span on the bridge on I-93 South over the Mystic River. Work begins on Friday at 8 p.m. and continues through Monday at 5 a.m. Below is a list of this weekend's work and detours. See the attached PDFs for maps showing the location of the work and detours. Throughout the course of the weekend, traffic onI-93 will be limited to two lanes in each direction over a 6-mile …
Friday, June 3, 2011
Expect delays along 93 and the surrounding communities.
Work crews will undertake the first of a series of rapid bridge superstructure replacements on I-93 in Medford beginning on Friday, June 3 at 8 p.m. and continuing through Monday, June 6 at 5 a.m. The first location involves the bridge on I-93 north over Riverside Avenue. Throughout the course of the weekend, traffic on I-93 will be limited to two lanes in each direction over a six-mile segment between Exit 28 (Sullivan Square) in Somerville and Exit 36 (Montvale Avenue) in Stoneham. Traffic on I-93 north will be directed through a median crossover near the Somerville/Medford line and then travel in counter-flow operation on the southbound barrel of the highway before traveling through a second median crossover near Spot Pond in Stoneham. …
Vincent DiRico
11:07 am on Monday, October 8, 2012
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