Category Archives: construction

The Mass Department of Transportation has pushed back the closing of the Rockland Street bridge in Wellesley from Jan. 13 to Jan. 27. The current bridge will be destroyed and a new one should be in place by fall. A temporary pedestrian bridge is in place, but the bridge will be closed to traffic during [...]

Took a jaunt across the handicap-accessible temporary Rockland Street bridge this AM. The current bridge is being shut down on Jan. 13 and a new one will be built in coming months.

If you wanna take a last nostalgic drive or walk across the Rockland Street bridge in Wellesley, you better hurry. It’s closing down by this Friday, Jan. 6 Jan. 13, according to new info from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (What could possibly go wrong with doing on on Friday the 13th?). The bridge, which [...]

The hardest working people in Wellesley? Those guys who painstakingly have been sprucing up the Great Wall of Wellesley along the Hunnewell properties on Washington Street/Rte. 16. I stopped and pestered one of the stone masons the other day who said he’d been on the job for about two months. I couldn’t get the man, [...]

Washington Street in Wellesley will be closed from Walnut Street to the Newton line starting at 9PM Nov. 10 and will re-open at 5AM so that construction crews can repaving the street.  The same detour will be in effect on Sunday, Nov. 13, starting at 9PM and re-opening at 5AM the next day. More details [...]

Expect traffic delays on Tuesday starting at 7am as the Wellesley Department of Public Works rips up the road from Kenilworth Road to Beard Way to prepare it for resurfacing and repaving. The work will last all day, according to Wellesley Police.

Wellesley Police are putting commuters on notice that Washington Street will be closed to eastbound traffic from Walnut Street to the Newton line on Monday through Wednesday (Oct 3-5) from 9am-3pm due to construction. Traffic will be detoured down Walnut Street in Wellesley to Washington Street in Newton. Washington Street will be open westbound, but [...]