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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) oversees roads, public transit, aeronautics, and transportation licensing and registration in the US state of Massachusetts. It was created on November 1, 2009, by the 186th Session of the Massachusetts General Court upon enactment of the 2009 Transportation Reform Act.
This district plan has been continued under MassDOT and the Boston area (westward along the Mass Turnpike to Weston and south through to Randolph) was the basis for a sixth district in 2010. [3] The Massachusetts Highway Department conducts an annual traffic data collection program.
Massachusetts will commit $700 million in state funding toward replacement of the aging Cape Cod bridges, and the long-awaited effort will begin with construction of a successor to the Sagamore ...
NTPR was subject to a conceptual planning effort conducted by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to evaluate the feasibility of implementing daily Amtrak service along the Northern Tier corridor; the study was initiated in response to a legislative mandate included in the fiscal year 2020 Massachusetts state budget. [1]
An MBTA train in Beacon Park Yard for the September 30, 2014 press conference. In October 2013, MassDOT announced a $260 million plan to straighten the Mass Pike through Beacon Park Yard, replacing the existing toll booths with high-speed all-electronic tolling and allowing Harvard University and others to develop land currently cordoned off by the highway and its interchange ramps.
East-West Rail (also referred to as West-East Rail) is a proposed intercity passenger rail project that would provide new service between Boston and western Massachusetts, with stops including Worcester, Palmer, Springfield, Pittsfield, and Amtrak's Albany–Rensselaer station in New York.
The 1966 Program for Mass Transportation, the MBTA's first long-range plan, listed an approximately 1-mile (1.6 km) extension from Lechmere to Washington Street as an immediate priority. New Hampshire Division (Southern Division) passenger service would be cut back from North Station to a new terminal at Washington Street.
The 50–66 foot (15–20 m) right-of-way is still owned by MassDOT under the original layout. [3] [4] Massachusetts first gained numbered routes in 1922, with the formation of the New England Interstate Highways. Three-digit numbers were reserved for shorter routes.