HINGHAM PROJECT STATUS
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CBB closed Water Street on Tuesday, September 19th for grade crossing construction. The Detour for Water Street will be Main Street, through the Square. Local businesses remain open on Water Street; access will be maintained at all times.
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CBB closed Torrent Crossing (a permanent closure) on Monday, September 25th.
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Right of Way work will occur during extended hours throughout the Town of Hingham with work starting at 7:00 am and extending to 8:00 pm as necessary - work is likely to occur during the same hours on Saturdays as well.
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South Street, between Main and North Streets, will remain a one-way street eastbound with parking allowed on both sides. The road has been paved to an extra width to allow work to be staged from South Street with the street remaining open.
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Hingham Square Underpass: Concrete wall work between South Street and Station Street is ongoing but nearing completion. Early morning concrete work and miscellaneous construction activities may continue to minimize traffic congestion during business hours.
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Grade Crossings: Water Street closed on September 19th. The crossing will be closed while the grade crossing is installed and the Home Meadows culvert is replaced. Crews will also be cleaning and lining the Home Meadow culvert pipe which runs from Water Street under the Station Street parking lot out to Route 3A near the Sovereign Bank.
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CBB re-opened South Street at the Fort Hill - West - South Street intersection (near the South Shore Country Club). Motorists are urged to use care driving through this area. There will be intermittent closures of South Street as ties and rail are moved across this crossing - these closures will occur from 9am to 4pm.
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The Hersey Street grade crossing has re-opened to traffic, a considerable amount of work remains, and will be completed with short-term closures of the grade crossing.
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Crews have completed the gas-line work at the Eldridge Court grade crossing. The actual grade crossing work is underway with work on the sewer line sleeve. Access to the homes along Eldridge Court will be maintained at all times.
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Crews will begin to complete the roadway work at the Hull Street (Rte 228) grade crossing. We will be installing the median islands, finishing our curb work, etc. all of which will be will performed with lane closures or very short road closures.
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Crews have closed the grade crossing at Weir Street as the Town of Hingham has completed construction a turn-a-round on the ocean side of the crossing.
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CBB will begin to rail into place through out the Town of Hingham for next two weeks.
I hope that the following will help explain the steps necessary. Day closures are necessary to either load rail onto the spine train to be transported down the line or where rail is actually pushed across a crossing. Intermittent closures, 10-12 minutes are necessary in instances where rail is being off loaded, but some of the rail remains across a crossing in the process, finally, as the spine train, carrying rail moves across a crossing, traffic will be delayed 3-5 minutes allowing the train to pass. CBB has been coordinating these moves with the Town of Hingham to assure they are carried out safely.
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Rail has been moved across Hull Street and over the next week, we will be moving rail through to Kilby and Summer Streets. Kilby Street will be closed to traffic mid to late next week. The goal is to have all of the rail installed through and including the underpass by Thanksgiving.
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Right of Way: Grading and drainage work on the right of way is ongoing between Water Street and the Cohasset Line.
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Crews have begun to work in the narrow track section of Right of Way between Hersey Street and West Street. Crews will begin with grading, drainage installation and ultimately bal
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Bridge Work: We continue to work on the Weir River rail bridge, which is nearing completion. We have started to install the flood control culvert installation next to this bridge.
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Wetlands Mitigation: Greenbush wetlands mitigation work between West Street, North Street, South Street, and Torrent Crossing (the Hingham Wye) is largely complete. We are currently making some minor adjustments to the grades in the mitigation site.
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West Hingham Station: The platform has been erected and crews are continuing with Right of Way drainage and retaining wall installation in the area of the platform. Crews are also clearing out the site in preparation of actual station construction.
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Nantasket Junction Station: Crews continue to process and remove material at the former Hingham Lumber site. Crews are also clearing out the site in preparation of actual station construction. Work at this site will occur on Saturdays as necessary.
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