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The Bourne Bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts, carries Route 28 across the Cape Cod Canal, connecting Cape Cod with the rest of Massachusetts.It won the American Institute of Steel Construction's Class "A" Award of Merit as the "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" in 1934. [1]
A 2014 Cape Cod Commission report identified the Bourne Rotary as a Barnstable County high-crash location using 2006 to 2008 state transportation data. There were 71 crashes during that time or 1. ...
A 1922 map of the Cape Cod Canal, including the Bourne Highway Bridge A 1925 aerial view of Bourne and the bridge. Work on the bridge began on August 10, 1910, during construction of the Cape Cod Canal. [2] The bridge abutments were completed by December. [3] In April 1911, the bridge was reported as being nearly completed. [4]
“The $5 million is for interim repairs, to avoid a major rehabilitation of the bridge as part of a commitment to replace both of the Cape Cod bridges,” Markey said in a Wednesday interview ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bryan Cordeiro, the state transportation project manager for the Cape Cod bridges project, told the Times in May that a grant application for the Bourne Bridge was filed on May 6.
The route in Cape Cod was also assigned in 1922 as a primary New England route. The road from Bourne to Orleans along the south shore of the Cape was the easternmost section of New England Route 3. At the end of 1926, the U.S. Highway system was established and several of the primary New England routes were redesignated as U.S. routes.