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Cape Cod Canal: Locale: Bourne, Massachusetts (Buzzards Bay-Cape Cod) Maintained by: United States Army Corps of Engineers: Characteristics; Design: Arch bridge with suspended deck: Total length: 2,384 ft (727 m) Width: 45 ft (14 m) Height: 274 ft (83.5152 m) Longest span: 616 ft (188 m) Clearance below: 135 ft (41 m) History; Construction ...
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 ...
Bourne (/ b ɔːr n / BORN) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.The population was 20,452 at the 2020 census. [1]For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne (CDP), Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, and Sagamore Beach.
The Bourne Rotary, shown here in May, is on the south side of the Bourne Bridge. Pavement upgrades and widening work at the rotary amounting to about $1.8M in cost is expected to begin in the ...
In December 2023, the federal government awarded an initial down payment of $372 million in grants for the renovation of the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges, both of which are nearing their obsolescence. [5] The two bridges connect Cape Cod to Massachusetts proper, arching over the canal and allowing the passage of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. [6]
Wings Neck is a peninsula that juts out into Buzzards Bay on the south side of the Cape Cod Canal, in Bourne, Massachusetts, USA.. The southwestern tip of the neck is the site of the Wing's Neck Lighthouse, which operated from 1889 to 1945, and is now a private residence.
In the late 1950s, MassHighway proposed a cloverleaf to replace the Bourne Rotary and expedite traffic headed down-Cape across Camp Edwards to Route 6 at Sandwich. Bourne selectmen liked the proposal.
It was part of the Cape Cod Expressway, which eventually morphed into the Mid-Cape Highway. It was originally planned to be a safe alternative to US 6 and was to be located on the northern side of the Cape Cod Canal. [17] As early as 1962, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works conducted a study once questions on the plans were raised.