Massachusetts Department Of Transportation Will Host Meeting On Pending Work At Ames & Bridge Streets

Press release from the Town of Dedham:

July 6, 2020

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation invites Dedham residents to attend a Virtual Public Information Meeting on the Ames Street and Bridge Street (Route 109) Reconstruction Project.

The meeting will be held 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Register to participate.

The purpose of this virtual public meeting is to provide residents of Dedham and adjoining communities with an opportunity to become fully acquainted with updates to the Ames St. and Bridge St. (Route 109) Reconstruction project as it moves into construction in Summer 2020. The reconstruction project will provide:

• ADA-accessible sidewalks,
• wheelchair ramps and crosswalks to improve sidewalk connectivity;
• five to six foot wide bicycle lanes with two foot buffers;
• proper signage;
• new Traffic Control System and crosswalks to improve pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular safety;
• and stormwater improvements.

The meeting will address the project schedule, work hours, and anticipated traffic impacts during the construction phase.

This meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. MassDOT provides reasonable accommodations and/or language assistance free of charge upon request (e.g interpreters in American Sign Language and languages other than English, live captioning, videos, assistive listening devices and alternate material formats), as available. For accommodation or language assistance, please contact MassDOT’s Chief Diversity & Civil Rights Officer by phone at (857) 368-8580, TTD/TTY at (857) 266-0603, fax (857) 368-0602 or by email to [email protected]. Requests should be made as soon as possible prior to the meeting, and for more difficult to arrange services including sign-language, CART or language translation or interpretation, requests should be made at least ten business days before the meeting.

To be added to the project email list, please contact Donny Dailey, Office of Government and Public Affairs, at 617-945-4272 or [email protected].

Please share this notice with others who may be interested in the project.

This press release was produced by the Town of Dedham. The views expressed here are the author’s own.