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An announcement of the closing of the tunnel
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The two months-long Sumner Tunnel renovation project is expected to wrap up on schedule as well as in time to reopen the tunnel on Friday and so help mitigate Labor Day holiday weekend traffic congestion.
Granted, traffic-scarred and thus understandably cynical drivers did not expect to see it happen on time, however, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has gone on the record that the project really will finish on time.
The #SumnerTunnel in #Boston is reopening on September 1, 2023. #MassDOT crews continue to finalize work and clean and prepare the tunnel for travel.
Weekend Sumner Tunnel work will resume in the fall. Check https://t.co/EZdZn7URNH for future project updates. pic.twitter.com/bMouVu0qDN
— Mass. Transportation (@MassDOT) August 27, 2023
Holiday weekend traffic happens
A Bloomberg image
Even so, some drivers will surely grip about planned short weekend tunnel closures to address punch list sort of things care of the tunnel’s renovation even though these brief closures were duly announced during the project’s rollout announcements.
After all, complaining about transportation woes in Greater Boston by residents of Greater Boston has supplanted complaining about both the weather and the Red Sox as the region’s top kvetch.
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This is the hocus pocus Mass highway always uses. It isn’t finished, just open. If not, they wouldn’t have to close it more weekends and next summer, repeat this summer. If it was finished, no closures would be needed.
Johnson,
QQ well knows hocus pocus grifted by Massachusetts bureaucrats and politicians.
In this instance, however, QQ can only reasonably give MassDOT the benefit of the doubt. MassDOT limited the shutdown of the Sumner Tunnel from AFTER the Fourth of July holiday weekend until before the Labor Day weekend with weekend closures planned to follow to finish up on this and that it felt could not be accomplished during the tunnel’s closure.
Net/net, the Koch Maladministration should take note.