Massachusetts will get nearly half a billion dollars in federal money to help replace a drawbridge connecting North Station to railways north of Boston, Gov. Maura Healey’s office announced Monday.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the MBTA $472 million in so-called MEGA grant funding for the North Station Draw One bridge replacement project. A T official said that money will fully cover all bridge replacement costs, adding that the bridge is one part of a broader, roughly $1.2 billion project to renovate North Station.
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Healey’s office called it the largest federal grant ever received by the T.
The bridge connects Boston and Cambridge and carries Amtrak and MBTA commuter rail trains northward. More than 11 million passengers travel by train over the bridge each year along routes including the Haverhill, Lowell, Newburyport/Rockport and Fitchburg Lines.
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