Final Environmental Impact Report - Whittier Bridge/I-95 ...

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is why we've been able to deal with the design speed
change up there to make it a safer ramp also.
In terms of the alternative transportation, this
project as it was noted last year, this is the first
interstate bridge in Massachusetts to have a shared
use path on it. It's been done throughout the country
quite a bit over the past 10 to 15 years and it's made
itself into New England a little bit with some
projects in New Hampshire and Maine and also
Connecticut, but this is the first one that's on an
interstate bridge in Massachusetts. And one of the
reasons that it became an opportunity was how we were
staging the project as well as also the driven issues
coming from the community and the people that wanted
it. This actually ties into the Coastal Trail
network. And this was a key link that they were
looking for for bicycles to tie into existing systems,
trail systems that they had throughout Amesbury,
Salisbury and Newburyport. The transportation
network, it ties right into the Park and Ride in
Newburyport. It will get people across the bridge in
a local exit to Merrill Road and also we'll get people
right up to 110 where there's some recent improvements
in the 110 Rabbit Road area which will allow it to
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