Tobin Bridge Work to Begin This Week, Last to 2019

A Tobin Bridge repair and restoration project for the Charlestown portion will begin this week, MassDOT said.

Crews will be working on the section of the bridge which carries Route 1 over the Mystic River and between Charlestown and Chelsea.

The $15.6 million project will include "structural steel repairs as well as cleaning and painting the steel and railings on the upper and lower levels in order to preserve the bridge," according to MassDOT.

The work will be done on the southernmost section of the bridge in Charlestown. The project is expected to take until 2019.

There will be temporary travel lane closures on Route 1 northbound and southbound on the Tobin in the area during off-peak hours.

The Tobin was erected in 1948-49 and opened in 1950.

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