CDN Smith
Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city has finally gone out to bid to build a 2.1‑mile cycletrack along Edgewood Avenue after receiving all necessary project sign-offs from the state Department of Transportation.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn told the Independent that on June 2 the city formally started advertising a bid to hire civil construction contractors for the construction of the Edgewood cycletrack. The invitation to bid will be open until 3 p.m. on June 26.
The two-way, protected cycletrack, which the city’s traffic commissioners and City Plan commissioners approved nearly two years ago, is to stretch from Forest Road to Park Street. The state is providing $1.2 million to fund the construction of the project.
Zinn said the cycletrack has been delayed for so long because of the unique complexity of building protected bike lanes across 12 different intersections on the west side of town.
“All the signal changes had to be approved by the state,” he said. “It’s a lengthy project.”
At the end of May, he said, finally received from the state DOT a project authorization letter and an authorization to go out to bid for construction of the cycletrack.
Depending on how that bid goes, Zinn said, the city could begin construction on the cycletrack later this summer.
He estimated the project would take roughly four to six months to build, though that construction work will not all be done continuously.
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