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April 14, 2008 – Acton overwhelmingly passed Article 33 at their Town Meeting which allows Acton to enter into an inter-municipal agreement with Carlisle and Westford to be the lead Town for Phase 2A efforts. Carlisle and Westford will vote on similar Articles at their upcoming Town Meetings.
April 7, 2008 – The draft 25% design plans for Phase 2A were delivered to MassHighway by GPI. You can view the plans at Pedal Power, or download them electronically here (20 MB PDF).
Note: MassHighway will now review, comments, and has the opportunity to make edits to the 25% design plans. Edits are expected to be minor as the GPI and Acton , Carlisle and Westford have been working very closely with MassHighway all through the process. After working on the plans, MassHighway will schedule a public meeting to formally present the plans and elicit public comment. We now expect this to occur late summer / early fall.
March 27, 2008 – A very extensive STEP application was submitted to the Executive Office of Transportation and Construction. Applications are reviewed quarterly, so the Phase 2A application will be reviewed in June.
As of December 2007 Acton, Carlisle and Westford are working on a joint application to apply for Statewide Enhancement Program (STEP) funding for the final design (75% and 100%) of their section of the Phase 2 of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, referred to as Section or Phase 2A. It is expected a 25% Design Public Meeting will be held in the first few months of 2008.
In August 2007 GPI submitted an updated Project Initiation Form (PIF) to MassHighway’s District 3 for review and approval by MassHighway’s Project Review Committee (PRC). (As of December 2007 formal PRC approval had not been received, but is expected)
On June 12, 2007, a public meeting was held in Acton by Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. (GPI), the designer, to present the 10% design for discussion. Press coverage if the event can be found in the Acton Beacon
http://www.townonline.com/acton/homepage/x1595751723
As of December 15, 2006 all three towns (Acton, Carlisle & Westford) had signed a contract with Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. to conduct preliminary design.
On August 23, 2006 Acton with Westford and Carlisle issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for preliminary design services for their sections of the Phase 2 portion of the BFRT. The RFP requests the work to be completed by Spring 2007.
Request for Proposal (pdf)
Design Contract (pdf)
In March 2006, Project Initiation Form and Project Need Form were submitted to MassHighway to formally initiate the project.
Project Initiation Form
Project Need Form
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