Gas Work Delaying Rockland Street Bridge Opening

Police say the bridge at Rockland Street will be complete, but not re-open until after works to repair the summer gas main break.

Gas Work Delaying Rockland Street Bridge Opening

Police say the bridge at Rockland Street will be complete, but not re-open until after works to repair the summer gas main break.

  Your car will have to stay off the new Rockland Street bridge, but only for a little while longer.  Wellesley Police told Patch today that the bridge is nearly complete--and expected to finish today--although they do not plan to re-open it until early January.  According to Lt. Jack Polecki, the delay is to repair the gas main break at the end of August. A worker accidentally damaged the line during construction, which National Grid then capped on both ends, intending to return to fully repair the gas line at a later date. The repairs are necessary to maintain gas pressure along the gas main during the coming winter months. Rather than open the newly-completed bridge, only to close it again for these repairs, Polecki says the bridge will…

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Rockland Street Bridge Looking at December Re-Opening

Bridge has been closed since January, was expected to re-open in September.

  After closing to drivers earlier this year, the Rockland Street bridge may soon be passable again. The bridge was initially expected to re-open in September. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation tells the Swellesley Report that the bridge is expected to re-open by the end of the year.  At the Nov. 19 Board of Selectmen meeting, officials said during a traffic study report, that the goal is to re-open the bridge by mid-December. The study aims to streamline traffic lights along Washington and Linden Streets, and will re-examine the Rockland Street intersection after the bridge is open once again.  MassDot announced in May that the cost would increase, in part due to outdated information about the bridge abutments. Bridge …

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