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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 ...
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[3] [4] [5] The Cape Cod Bridges program is currently taking public input into the multi phased project and have unveiled different design types for feedback. [6] The Sagamore bridge is slated to be replaced with a new span just to the west of the existing span. [7] Construction could begin in 2027 with an estimated time to completion of 8 to ...
Memorial Day traffic on Cape Cod was heating up at 9:15 a.m. A journey from the Orleans Rotary over the Cape Cod Canal was predicted to take an hour by Google Maps, roughly 20 minutes more than usual.
Organizers expect up to 7,000 visitors at Cape Cod Canal Day Festival at Buzzards Bay Park Sept. 21. ... the 2,200-ton Cape Cod Railroad Bridge is lowered by four 200-hp engines with a blast of ...
Good morning. The National Weather Service is forecasting a partly sunny day today on Cape Cod, with highs in the mid-70s. North winds will be 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Traffic is ...
Bridge after construction, December 1935 The U.S. Navy frigate USS Underwood passing under the bridge. The bridge was constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration from a design by firms Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff, and Douglas as well as Mead and White (both of New York), for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridge and the canal.
Each bridge carries four lanes of traffic over a 616-foot (188 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) ship clearance. Construction ended in early 1935 and the bridge opened on June 22, 1935. [2] The approaches to the main span of the Bourne Bridge are considerably longer than those of the Sagamore Bridge due to the topography of the land.