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MassDOT outlines highway workload, safety priorities and local grant access
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MassDOT officials told the Joint Committee on Transportation the Highway Division manages nearly 10,000 lane miles and more than 5,000 bridges, is running a multibillion-dollar capital program and is prioritizing work zone safety, expanded municipal grant access and program modernization.
MassDOT told the Joint Committee on Transportation that its Highway Division is managing a large capital program while prioritizing safety and better access to municipal grant programs.
The Highway Division’s administrator, Jonathan Gulliver, told the committee, “We manage nearly 10,000 lane miles of state highway, over 5,000 bridges,” and said the division leads about 2,800 staff who run day-to-day operations. He described an annual capital program that “currently exceeds $2,000,000,000” in spending and nearly 700 active maintenance and construction contracts totaling “just under $7,000,000,000” planned for 2025.
Those investments, Gulliver said, have…
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