Meetings planned to discuss replacement of Cape Cod bridges
Construction is expected to start as early as 2025. The Sagamore Bridge (left) and the Bourne Bridge. David Kamerman/Globe Staff
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BOSTON (AP) The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has scheduled a pair of virtual meetings to discuss plans to replace the Bourne and Sagamore bridges.
Officials at the public information meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday will present an overview of the proposed Cape Cod Canal Area Transportation Improvement Program, which not only includes replacing the two bridges across the Cape Cod Canal, but improving the approach road networks.
The purpose of the meetings is to provide the public with the opportunity to become acquainted with the proposed project and to gather feedback.
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The driver of a sedan was killed in a two-vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer truck in Bourne, Massachusetts, according to police.
The accident occurred on Sandwich Rd. in Bourne, and closed traffic in both directions between the Bourne and Sagamore Bridge, the Massachusetts Department of Transporation reported around 6:15 p.m. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Bourne police said that the sedan driver had been killed, while MassDOT said there were serious injuries reported.
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As a member of the Vietnam War generation, I have heard many stories about levels of the tragedy.
A colleague, an Episcopal priest, shared that her brother, a college student who majored in peace and reconciliation, was drafted into service. After basic training, he returned home, then without notifying his parents and sister, took his life by leaping off the Sagamore Bridge into the Cape Cod canal.
His struggle to end his life before taking up a rifle to end another’s, was not as unique as you might think. In fact, that “conflict” (Congress did not have the nerve to call it what it was: a war) is distinguished from all recorded wars in this grave respect: more have killed themselves before, during and after the fighting, than actually perished in combat. Over 60,000, compared to 55,000, field casualties, not to mention close to 1 million Vietnamese civilians.
Except, our reporting partner, WBSM News, has confirmed that there was no explosion.
The story appears to have started on a website/social media platform called StreetLoc. StreetLoc is described in app stores as “privacy focused social media” and on its site, it boasts that it is “Facebook without the censorship or the ‘fact checkers.’”
Obviously.
According to the article, “Around 11:40am EST there was a huge explosion in Cape Cod close to the Pave Paws radar station. There is no word as to what caused the explosion.” Although the article began circulating across social media on Thursday, the article itself appears undated.