Sagamore Bridge

Separately, the state says it will mail letters this week to about 1,000 property owners near the Bourne and Sagamore bridges whose property workers may need to access temporarily for the bridge project.

Sagamore Bridge neighbors who stand to lose their homes for the replacement bridge, or who will end up living directly next to the bridge, spoke directly to the state’s head of the project at a public forum last night in Bourne.

Community meetings with the state's leader of the Cape bridges replacement project start Tuesday, April 15th. Meanwhile, the federal funding committed for the Sagamore has yet to hit state coffers.

Following on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the National Transportation Safety Board issued an urgent recommendation last month, calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges for risk in the event of a vessel collision.

The National Transportation Safety Board is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges for risk of collapse in the event of a vessel collision.

The state Department of Transportation sent letters by mail and hand delivery last week to 15 property owners — 12 residential and three commercial.

The layouts aren’t final, but this is the first time the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has identified its top choices.

The project to replace Cape Cod’s aging Bourne and Sagamore bridges reached a critical milestone with the announcement today of nearly one billion dollars in federal funding.

In the first public information session in a year, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation plans to discuss the status of the $4.5 billion project to replace the Bourne and Sagamore bridges.

The transportation grant, worth more than $1 billion, would essentially complete the funding for the Sagamore Bridge.