Route 30 To Close For Second Rail Trail Bridge Raising

FRAMINGHAM, MA — The second of two bridges along an expansion of the Cochituate Rail Trail will be installed on Sunday, which will mean an overnight closure of Route 30 at the Framingham-Natick border.

MassDOT crews will raise the crossing over Route 30 beginning at around 10 p.m. Sunday night, with work set to wrap up by 5 a.m. on Nov. 16. The first bridge went up over Route 9 on Oct. 11, which also included an overnight closure.

The state is lengthening the Cochituate Rail Trail by about 4 miles between the Saxonville area in Framingham and Natick center.

The first 1-1/2 mile section of the trail from Saxonville to Route 30 opened in 2015. The new $12.4 million portion of the trail will travel along an old CSX line along Lake Cochituate before heading toward downtown Natick just west of Route 27. The trail will also feature a spur near Chrysler Road that will travel to the Natick Mall.

On Sunday, westbound drivers from Wayland will be detoured south along Route 27 to Route 9, and then north back to Route 30. The eastbound detour will take Speen Street to Route 9, up Route 27, and back to Route 30.

Sunday's work is weather-dependent. If crews can't raise the bridge Sunday night, the work will be completed on Monday, according to MassDOT.