Without a formal project agreement in place, MassDOT will receive only $8 million out of a $335 million "reconnecting communities" grant that the Biden administration had pledged.| mass.streetsblog.org
As state officials continue to struggle to overcome major financing shortfalls and design conflicts in MassDOT’s proposed Interstate 90 realignment in Allston, state highway officials have floated a proposal to spend the majority of the project’s committed federal funding on a dramatically-scaled back “early action” project that would be limited to the area around the […]| mass.streetsblog.org
Federal officials have pledged $1.2 million to let the City of Everett start planning ways to bridge the Revere Beach “Parkway,” a massive highway barrier that divides the northern and southern parts of the city. The study will focus specifically on the massive Sweetser Circle, a 1950s-era rotary that MassDOT has identified as a high-risk […]| mass.streetsblog.org