BARNSTABLE- RESURFACING AND RELATED WORK ON ROUTE 6

The purpose of this project is to improve highway safety along Route 6 (Mid-Cape Highway), which is also a critical Evacuation Route. The proposed widened shoulders will provide emergency pullover capacity and will address existing hydroplaning issues that occur during heavy rain events. The project will increase the resiliency of the highway facility by providing wider shoulders better capable of shedding rainwater runoff away from the highway’s travel lanes. Stormwater management will be improved by eliminating large portions of existing substandard closed-drainage systems to convey rainwater runoff away from the roadway edges by sheet runoff across the new shoulders to open water quality BMPs (Best Management Practice) treatment measures. Bridge structures within the project limits will have their bridge railings replaced with current TL-5 Crash Tested Barriers.