Health & Fitness
How Much Did This Bridge Cost?
The new Route 1 bridge in Dedham is a nice example of work MassDOT can do. Does anyone know how much this one cost to build?
Recently David shared this photo with me and provided the following information.
"Dedham Square Route 1 overpass, which has been completed so recently that it does not show up completed yet on Google Earth. Rt-1/VFW is almost a full 6 lanes over the bridge, so the construction is about 2x wider what would be needed at Forest Hills, but it shows clearly how MassDOT builds a stone-face overpass these days. You can see they did a pretty nice job, with lots of light and good (but hard to show/see) PMMs (pidgeon mitigation measures). As a Forest Hills overpass would be a lower speed, automobile-only parkway, MassDOT should spec. lower bridge roadway sidewalls and median barriers, which would lighten the aesthetics of the bridge."
I wonder how much this bridge cost - it might help us get a better feel for what the cost of a bridge at Forest Hills would be.