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Cape Cod Bridge Filings Reveal MassDOT Does Not Intend to Obey State Climate Laws
MassDOT's projections of increasing car traffic to Cape Cod are incompatible with a future where the region isn't inundated by rising seas.
October 9, 2025
With Another $1 Billion Pledge From Washington, MassDOT Can Almost Afford Sagamore Bridge Replacement
On Friday afternoon, the Healey-Driscoll administration and the Commonwealth's congressional delegation announced that Washington had pledged a new grant of "nearly $1 billion" to help finance the replacement of the Sagamore Bridge in Bourne.
July 12, 2024
MassDOT Wins ‘Mega’ Grant for Sagamore Bridge Replacement
The following is adapted from a MassDOT press release.
December 18, 2023
Highway Boondoggles 2023: This Year’s Poster Children for Bad Projects
Once again, transportation funds that could be used to repair streets, roads and bridges are instead diverted into costly, damaging highway expansion projects. Here's this year's list of the worst of the worst.
November 9, 2023
Washington Snubs MassDOT’s Proposed Cape Cod Highway Expansion
In addition to building new, 6-lane bridges over the Cape Cod Canal, MassDOT is also proposing to add more lanes to connecting highways like Route 6 and Sandwich Road, build a new mile-long bypass road, widen intersections, and build new highway-style interchanges on both sides of the canal.
January 5, 2023