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The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 ...
The current tower, one of the first made of cast iron, was built in 1849. After the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914, most vessels bound from south of the Cape to the Boston area took the shorter and safer route through the canal, so there was much less traffic past the light and the light was deactivated in 1923.
With the Railroad Bridge as a backdrop, the Mayflower II crew makes its way through the Cape Cod Canal in 2022. The ship is a historic reproduction of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the ...
[3] [4] [5] The Cape Cod Bridges program is currently taking public input into the multi phased project and have unveiled different design types for feedback. [6] The Sagamore bridge is slated to be replaced with a new span just to the west of the existing span. [7] Construction could begin in 2027 with an estimated time to completion of 8 to ...
Has a ship hit a Cape Cod Canal bridge? In 2016, a 131-foot-tall Norwegian cruise ship called the Viking Star clipped the railroad bridge in Buzzards Bay, on the western end of the Cape Cod Canal ...
1:30 p.m.: 10-mile back-up from the Cape Cod Canal bridges. At about 1 p.m. on Sunday, traffic on Route 6 was backed up around Exit 61 in Sandwich. As the weekend comes to an end, Cape Cod ...
There are currently two automobile bridges and one railway bridge that cross the Cape Cod Canal, each of which opened in 1935. An earlier set of bridges, also two for automobiles and one for rail traffic, opened between 1911 and 1913. Construction of the Cape Cod Canal began in 1909; the canal initially opened in 1914 and was completed in 1916.
MassDOT met with Cape Cod stakeholders to talk about funding to replace the aging Bourne and Sagamore bridges. ... in their current ... with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeking $1.06 billion ...