Why Two Bridges?

The nearly 50-year-old Kennedy Bridge downtown is 50 percent over capacity and does not meet current safety standards. Designed for 80,000 vehicles per day, it now handles more than 120,000 vehicles per day. A new East End bridge, alone, would divert 30,000 to 40,000 vehicles per day, leaving the Kennedy still dangerously at or over capacity.

Continued overuse and deterioration of the Kennedy Bridge could result in weight limits being placed on the bridge, which would prevent cargo trucks from using the bridge and would devastate the many manufacturing and logistics related businesses in our region.

The two new bridges and the rebuild of Spaghetti Junction was approved as one project by the state and federal transportation agencies, after a five-year $23 million federal study and extensive public input (450-plus public meetings throughout the region; including nearly 4,000 comments on the project’s Environmental Impact Statement). Moving forward with something other than a two-bridge solution would result in years more delay, and millions of dollars wasted