The State Is Formally Moving Forward With A Third Cape Cod Bridge

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Globe – It’s the most enduring of Cape Cod rituals, the snarl of traffic that traps drivers desperate to cross the canal.

Now the state Department of Transportation is advancing a way to ease the pain: a new bridge, funded by private investors.

The agency has focused on the possibility of adding a three-lane span next to the Sagamore Bridge. It would be limited to Cape-bound traffic, and drivers would pay a toll to use it. The Sagamore, meanwhile, would become a one-way, three-lane bridge to handle traffic coming off the Cape, with no toll.

A formal effort is underway to find private investors willing to pay for highway projects in exchange for toll revenue.

Oh yeah, this is a FANTASTIC idea. Add another bridge, but make said bridge and the Sagamore both one way? And they are each only three lanes? And have the one with the traffic coming to the Cape be a TOLL BRIDGE? You have to be kidding me.

What genius came up with a plan that only adds one more lane of traffic coming to Cape Cod, and then adds a toll booth to them all? And I don’t want to hear about the automatic toll paying systems. WAY more people don’t have those in their cars than do. 80% of traffic is still going to have to come to a dead stop on this new bridge.

First we hear they are putting a Dunkin’ Donuts at the Bourne Rotary and now this? Why not just put a Dunkin’ inside every toll booth and kill two birds with one stone. If you are gonna make everyone stop at the bridge anyway, you might as well stuff a couple of munchkin’s and a medium iced down their throats. Maybe even throw a gas station up there while you’re at it, why not right, what’s the hurry?

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  1. If you don't have the transponder in your car they send you a bill so nobody will actually be stopping, there will be no toll booths. That's how they now do it on the Tobin Bridge in Boston. But having that transponder earns you a $0.50 discount! How nice of them.

  2. Can't even imagine how long it might take to build such a bridge and alter the roadways to accommodate it all. If they put a toll there you just know that every damn car will be going over the Bourne Bridge to avoid it. The whole plan is super bad.

  14. I'd just like to point out that 2070 years ago Julius Caesar built one of many Rhine bridges that spanned even wider than the Cape Cod Canal. He built the first bridge in 10 days! Almost 2100 years ago. Just add unions, the EPA, and bureaucrats and it might take as long to get the permit.

  15. I'd just like to point out that 2070 years ago Julius Caesar built one of many Rhine bridges that spanned even wider than the Cape Cod Canal. He built the first bridge in 10 days! Almost 2100 years ago. Just add unions, the EPA, and bureaucrats and it might take as long to get the permit.

  16. perfect! Except when drivers get onto the Cape, um, 2 lane RT 6, single lane 6A and RT 28. Then, we'll need three lane highways. "paved paradise, put up a parking lot"

  17. perfect! Except when drivers get onto the Cape, um, 2 lane RT 6, single lane 6A and RT 28. Then, we'll need three lane highways. "paved paradise, put up a parking lot"

  18. Chris Gibbs will you be the first SLAVE/ volunteer, because everyone knows Caesar payed a living wage it was the height of civilization. You could probably build the bridge itself in 10 days but who needs all those regulations anyway, no EPA, no building inspectors, no oversight at all sounds like utopia or is that fantasy land???

  22. So, what is going to stop them from using the Burne bridge to come then using the Sagamore to go.
    I live here year round, Joe works off Cape. He's not the only one that lives here and works off cape. So again it hits our pockets. Our employers are not going to give us raises just to cover the tolls, now are they.

  24. Michael LaRocca The fact that you are so butt-hurt over my post makes me happy. Musta' hit a nerve! Like they say, 'when you're over the target, you'll get a lot of flak." "Everyone knows…?" I love how the dumbest among us always preface something stupid they are about to say with "Everyone Knows." By all means, feel free to get your facts straight before you go running your mouth and fuming over something you know nothing about. Caesar's Army built the bridges you dolt, not slaves. Oddly, the Rhine survived just fine without the EPA. You're like the poster kid for "generally brain dead keyboard ninja." Take a few deep breaths bro. Next week, after you get your panties out of a twist, how about you do us all a favor and take your social justice warrior crap over to the Bernie Sanders and the Occupy Wall Street pages?

  25. 3 lanes of traffic going down to 2 lanes boys and girls!! You know how awesome merges can be!! Whose dumb idea is that?? A 3rd bridge should be for the benefit of the residents of Bourne and the cape! Bourne residents suffer the hardest, A 2 minute trip to the store suddenly takes an hour! Just like the by-pass was to steer traffic away from main st right?? Lets do it like Boston. Take a ferry!!!! AND anyone not wanting to pay a toll will simply hop to the Bourne bridge and snarl traffic even worse than it is!! Private investors wouldn't pay for the original bridges… why would they now? The bridges were in limbo for many years because noone wanted to pay so the army corp of engineers bought them. To this day they are controlled by the A,CE. Too many people on the cape is going to spoil it. For those of us that live here, the solution shoudn't be a further punishment to the residents who have to put up with this. None of the solutions will cure the issues on rte 6. Bridge or no bridge!! Maybe they should start by discussing 3 lane highways actually on the cape! These bridge solutions will not stop the 2 lane bottle neck! Brainless

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