After significant planning, public process and design-engineering, and
more recently the securing of state and federal transportation dollars,
the reconstruction of Beacon Street officially starts this month, April
19, 2006:
Construction Administration
Spearheaded by Brookline’s Department of Public Works (DPW), the
reconstruction will be administered by the Massachusetts Highway
Department (MHD) in close coordination with the Town’s Engineering and
Transportation Division. Actual construction will be carried out by the
project’s Contractor, Barletta Heavy Division, as outlined below:
Project Scope
Transportation and Safety
Improvements
A new, coordinated traffic signal system will be installed, while the
roadway and sidewalks reconstructed with accessibility provisions for
the disabled, bicycle accommodations, and reconfigured intersections to
reduce potential conflicts, and thereby improve safety, for pedestrian,
vehicular and MBTA trolley traffic.
Landscape
Enhancements
Laid out in 1886 by F.L.Olmsted, local landscape architect, today’s
Beacon Street boulevard enhancements seek to recapture the historic
landscape and multi-modal transportation features originally envisioned
for Brookline, by providing new decorative and street tree plantings,
restored granite steps and median pedestrian paths, a new street
lighting system, street furniture and defined tree pits with flowering
under plantings throughout commercial areas.
Project Schedule
The reconstruction work along Beacon Street will move from the westerly
town line at the intersection of Ayr Road (near Cleveland Circle)
easterly to the town line at the intersection with St. Mary’s Street
(vicinity Audubon Circle, at Park Drive). Estimated construction time
for completion is three (3) years.
During that time, reconstruction efforts will be divided into three (3)
fundamental Phases, or sections of roadway, each of which will be
substantially complete prior to moving easterly to the next phase. And
in order to carry out work methodically and efficiently, each of these
Phases will further be broken down into subsections, or smaller more
manageable areas of reconstruction, based on factors such as scope and
quantity of work planned, parking demand, vehicular and pedestrian
volumes, residential or commercial pressures, and always an overriding
concern for safety.
Below please find proposed construction phasing with subsections as
presently approved, and a current link to ongoing reconstruction
activities, containing a project update that will highlight scheduled
work, vehicular travel information, parking restrictions and safety
guidance:
Phase I: Town Line (Ayr Road) to Westbourne Terrace
(Washington Square)
Section 1 Ayr Road to Corey/Dean Roads
Section 2 Corey/Dean Roads to Winthrop Road
Section 3 Winthrop Road to Westbourne Terrace
Phase II: Westbourne Terrace (Washington Sq) to Harvard St
(Coolidge Corner)
(under review)
Phase III: Harvard Street (Coolidge Corner) to Town Line (St.
Mary’s Street)
(under review)
Project Contact
Bill Smith, the Town’s project coordinator, is available at 617 264 6480
or email
Bill_Smith@town.brookline.ma.us
Your patience and cooperation is tremendously appreciated,
A. Thomas DeMaio,
Commissioner
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