Planning a trip to Cape Cod? Take the Bourne Bridge.
Just in time for spring, the Army Corps of Engineers is back at work. Anyone driving out to Truro to check on erosion at Ballston Beach, or attend the Selectmen’s meeting in Eastham to protest NStar’s plan to spray five herbicides under the power lines, will be obliged to fight traffic at the Sagamore Bridge. Bridge work will begin again March 1, today. This repair may be necessary but what a catastrophe for bed & breakfast owners! I read over the weekend that business is down 75%, and I believe it. No one is traveling anywhere anymore. Those who do manage to think spring this month, and are not hurting from the recession, and dream of walking a deserted beach ... must first affront one lane of traffic in either direction at Sagamore to reach Cape Cod.NOTE: Due to today's storm, the repair work today has been postponed until Thursday.
5 comments:
Thanks for the heads up. For reasons I cannot explain, we almost always take the Bourne coming to the Cape (we are coming from western MA, so 495 leads right there), but take the Sagamore home. Guess we will take the Bourne both ways when we visit the Cape in April.
I think travel will pick up this year, keep thinking positive!
Do they know when work will be completed? Hopefully before the summer tourism season really kicks in!
I guess they have to do it sometime. Better now than summer, when the traffic to the Cape is the worst!
Like Sven said (as you quoted him in an earlier post about a week ago I think), business will pick back up and people WILL start traveling again. I promise! But I know that it can feel so discouraging sometimes...
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