Staff Writer
Published: 11/8/2020 8:30:08 PM
EASTHAMPTON — After being closed off since early May, Ferry Street from Pleasant Street to Emerald Place is reopening to traffic Monday morning.
“It feels great,” said City Planner Jeffrey Bagg. “We’re encouraging people to take a trip down there.”
The renovation of Ferry Street is part of a $3.9 million road infrastructure project in the city. Paving and curbing, a roundabout, repairing the street’s retaining wall and a 10-foot-wide multiuse path are some of the improvements that have been completed.
The street is set to reopen to vehicles at 8 a.m. on Monday. Because the traffic pattern on the street is new, and because there is construction ongoing there, Bagg is asking that motorists proceed down the reopened street slowly.
Mayor Nicole LaChapelle hailed the renovation.
“It’s so exciting,” said LaChapelle. “And it’s safe.”
She said the improvements to the street have created a new traffic pattern, which will make it safer by making it so vehicles must move more slowly.
Since May, a detour around the closed-off area has been in place, which Bagg credited with helping speed the construction.
“The fact that we closed Ferry Street allowed the project to be done,” said Bagg. “It sped it up a lot.”
A new PVTA bus shelter, electric vehicle charging stations and lighting fixtures still need to be put into place, Bagg said, and he said that final landscaping for the project will probably occur in the spring.
Bagg also said that the private development at 1 Ferry Street inspired the city to make the infrastructure improvements on the street.
Bera Dunau can be reached at bdunau@gazettenet.com.
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