For the second consecutive summer, the Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation has completed substantial work on an accelerated bridge project early.
The project to replace the deteriorating 52-year-old Commonwealth Avenue Bridge began last July, when crews demolished and replaced the eastbound portion of the bridge, including the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line B portions of the bridge. The $82-million project went so smoothly that MassDOT was able to resume preconstruction traffic patterns three weeks early.