📋 Tender Overview
Massachusetts Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren and Congressman William R. Keating MA-09 have sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE calling for all necessary funding for the Cape Cod Canal Bridges to be included in the USACEs Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2020. The USACE recently released its draft Major Rehabilitation Evaluation Report on the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges in Cape Cod. The bridges connect the nearly 250000 residents on the Cape and Islands to the rest of Massachusetts and connect the rest of the country to this beating heart of the Massachusetts tourism economy. The Bourne and Sagamore bridges are more than eighty years old and as the USACEs draft report just concluded structurally deficient and in desperate need of replacement.It is of critical importance that work on the Cape Cod Canal Bridges begins as soon as possible wrote the Massachusetts lawmakers in their letter to Lieutenant General Todd T. Semonite Commanding General of the USACE. Allocating these initial funds in FY 2020 will represent a significant down payment and a responsible long-term investment in this critical infrastructure project.
