On-Cape travel all crosses the "new" bridge. Off-Cape crosses the old bridge. Won't be any worse than it is now. In fact, it'll be better because all 4 lanes of the old bridge will carry off-Cape traffic, not just two. They can make the first lane a dedicated merge lane from traffic coming off 6A, too. That merge now causes a lot of the Rte 6 back-ups coming off-Cape.
It's going to create a bottleneck the other way when the traffic coming down 3, and the traffic coming off the new "connector" funnels down to 2 lanes past Market basket, but it may eliminate the back-ups on 3 to past Cedarville.
Mike...re-read the part where I say the biggest problem is the existing highway system.....thus your bottleneck theory.
Oh and for the $320 mill plus the additional cost over runs over time of about an additional $100 mill plus or minus $50 mill either way....its not going to make that much of a difference.....the highway is still just 2 lanes each way.
Oh and for the $320 mill plus the additional cost over runs over time of about an additional $100 mill plus or minus $50 mill either way....its not going to make that much of a difference.....the highway is still just 2 lanes each way.
But the bridges are just one lane. It's a classic bottleneck. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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