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MassDOT Awards Contract For I-91 Project

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published April 16, 2015 at 5:26 PM EDT
The elevated highway in Springfield, MA known as the I-91 viaduct will be rebuilt beginning in November. The project is expected to take 3 years to finish
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The elevated highway in Springfield, MA known as the I-91 viaduct will be rebuilt beginning in November. The project is expected to take 3 years to finish
The elevated highway in Springfield, MA known as the I-91 viaduct will be rebuilt beginning in November. The project is expected to take 3 years to finish
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Part of the I-91viaduct in Springfield, MA that will be rebuilt in a $183 million three-year project starting later this year

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has awarded a contract for a major highway project in western Massachusetts.

JF White-Schiavone of Framingham submitted the lowest bid this week to rebuild the two-mile long elevated portion of Interstate 91 through downtown Springfield. 

The project is expected to cost $183 million and take three years.  There will be detours and ramp closings during the work, which is expected to start this summer.

        Kevin Kennedy, Springfield’s chief development officer said the city will work with MassDOT to publicize information about alternate routes and parking.

" Is there going to be some disruption?  Of course there is going to be some disruption, but the key is to manage it as best you can," he said.

75,000 vehicles a day, on average, travel the I-91 viaduct through Springfield.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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