The Department intends to email weekly updates to this group, which includes business and property owners along the scope of work, but you can also keep track of progress and updates via the project webpage at www.FitchburgMA.gov/MainBoulderProject.

This week, MTK will continue to put in curbing and sidewalks throughout the project. Electric Light will also continue to work on relocating signals and street lights throughout the project with a proposed completion date of Monday, 06/06 for Putnam Street/Boulder Drive and Tuesday, 06/07 for Putnam Street/Main Street. The water main replacement work on Cushing Street is still ongoing with a planned completion date of Friday, 06/10.

Businesses will be open during this work.

The project is scheduled to be completed by June 30^th, 2022

March 2022: East End Intersection Reconstruction

April/May 2022: West End Intersection Reconstruction

May 2022: Roadway and Landscaping Finishes

Throughout the Project Period: Traffic Signalization Upgrade Work

June 2022: Project Completion

Project Overview: The full project scope covers Main Street & Boulder Drive, from the eastern intersection at Main/Boulder—east of the Water Street Bridge—to the western intersection, between Central and Academy Streets. Partial lane closures may result at times but given the current traffic patterns, disturbances will tend to be limited to partial closures only.

The project includes intersection reconfigurations at the east and west intersections of Boulder and Main, two (2) new traffic signals at Putnam/Main and Putnam/Boulder, streetlight upgrades, and sidewalk and crosswalk improvements.

Project Webpage: More details can be found on the City’s project page, which can be found at www.FitchburgMA.gov/MainBoulderProject. We will include weekly look-aheads, so you can prepare for project impacts. It also includes both simplified and detailed designs of the project, as well as the comment portal and the ability to sign-up for newsletter alerts on the project.

Road Paving: With the exception of certain focused areas, the roads will not be paved through this project. There are extensive gas, water, and sewer separation projects planned in next 2-3 years. The goal will be to repave the roads when those projects are completed; otherwise, the City and Unitil would have had to tear up the newly-paved roads to complete those projects.

Parking: A small number of Main Street parking spots will be lost through this project, and on-street Boulder Drive parking will be removed altogether. To compensate for this loss, before project completion the City is working to create free (time-limited) on-street parking on Main Street, and free 2-hour parking at the Putnam Street (first floor) and Mill Street (both levels) garages. This work will be completed before any parking is removed for this project.

Project Contact: If you have particular questions or concerns about the project, you can call Senior Project Manager Amy Leblanc at 978-829-1893 or use our public comment form, located on the project webpage, and also included below.