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'Lets get it done': At the Bourne Dunkin', plenty of opinions on new Cape bridges

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Sam Houghton

Officials have had a lot to say about replacing the Bourne and Sagamore bridges.

But what about the residents living nearby, or the commuters who each day must drive over bridges designed for a 1930s Ford Roadster?

CAI’s Sam Houghton recently spent a morning outside the Dunkin at the foot of the Bourne bridge, asking people about what will likely be the Cape’s biggest-ever construction project — and offering some thoughts of his own.

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Sam Houghton left CAI in February, 2023, to become News Editor at the Martha's Vineyard Times.
He worked at CAI since the summer of 2017. Before that, he worked at the Falmouth Enterprise, where he covered local politics.
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