rail bridges project
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Video: Preparing to install the new tunnel
In our latest video from the Middlebury construction zone, we talk to project manager John Whitaker about the next big phase: the installation of the precast concrete tunnel…
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Middlebury shutdown: Week 2 of 10
Work is in full swing on the $72 million downtown Middlebury rail bridges project. We’re officially in “week two” of a 10-week closure of Main Street and Merchants…
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Watch our videos to see rail work in action
MIDDLEBURY — The removal of Middlebury’s Main Street bridge this past Monday marked the beginning of the 10-week intense phase of the rail tunnel construction project. The Addison…
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Video: How to get around downtown
The removal of Middlebury’s Main Street bridge this past Monday marked the beginning of a 10-week intense phase of the rail tunnel construction project. For those who love…
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Video: Bye-bye, Main Street bridge!
On Monday, July 13, crews removed Middlebury’s Main Street bridge to make way for the construction of a new rail tunnel. The bridge removal marked the start of…
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Video: Giant crane kicks off Middlebury’s downtown construction
The Addison Independent is teaming up with Middlebury Community Television this summer to produce weekly video dispatches from the rail bridges project in downtown Middlebury. In the first one, we…
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Builders set timetable for intense rail tunnel construction in Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — More than five years in the making, the new downtown Middlebury rail tunnel began taking shape as workers on Monday kicked off a comparatively brief 10-week…
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Downtown Middlebury closed early for construction dry run
MIDDLEBURY — Early Wednesday morning parts of downtown Middlebury got closed off to traffic and Kubricky Construction conducted a trial run of the precast tunnel pieces from the…
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Merchants Row bridge to be removed next week
MIDDLEBURY — Jim Gish, Project Community Liaison for the Middlebury rail tunnel project, reports that the pace of work in downtown is picking up, now that Kubricky workers…
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Work on downtown Middlebury rail project to restart
MIDDLEBURY — Work on the rail tunnel construction project in downtown Middlebury will restart this week after being on hold for a month and a half on account…
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Local officials ask state to allow Middlebury rail bridges project to proceed now
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard has asked state officials to designate the currently suspended downtown Middlebury rail bridges project as a “critical infrastructure” job, which would allow construction…
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Middlebury rail bridges project delayed
MIDDLEBURY — Work on the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project won’t begin on Monday, March 30, as had previously been reported. Instead, that work won’t be permitted to…
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Middlebury readies new traffic plan
MIDDLEBURY — The scheduled 10-week closure of Middlebury’s Main Street and Merchants Row is still around six months away, but town officials have already mapped out and approved…
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Middlebury board reviews bridges project, braces for 2020
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury’s Downtown Railroad Bridge Replacement Project has gone as smoothly as could be hoped and is ahead of schedule in some areas, project community liaison Jim…
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Work to resume on rail bridges project in Midd
MIDDLEBURY — Construction will resume on the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project on Monday, Aug. 5, with work to largely take place within a 1,700-foot stretch of rail…
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Battell Block owners get $532K in VTrans easements
MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) has agreed to pay a combined total of $5 million for easements on 27 separate downtown Middlebury properties within the…