Share Your Reaction: The Wood Street Overpass Opens Ahead of Schedule
The Wood Street overpass was closed for a month and a half, how do you feel about traffic in East Milton Square now that it reopened?
Construction on the Wood Street overpass in East Milton has wrapped up earlier than expected. While the work, which began on September 7, was initially scheduled as a three-to-four-month project, it was completed in about a month and a half. The overnight construction on the one-way bridge detoured traffic coming from Boston toward East Milton Square to turn left or right on Squantum Street. MassDOT announced last week that the bridge would reopen on Tuesday, November 27, but the project again moved ahead of schedule, opening on Friday, November 23. The detour added to traffic changes in the square with the test run of the new configuration that are planned to become perfect. Has the reopening of Wood Street improved your travels through …
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Joanne Gallagher
9:03 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
All the comments above are so true. This whole area is a traffic nightmare. I grew up on Wood Street back in the day when kids walked to school. The tragic death of one of my second grade classmates is seared into my memory. He was killed by a big truck as he was crossing near the post office. So this area has been an unmittagated nightmare ever since the expressway cut a canyon through East … more ›