Future of McGrath Highway Topic of Wednesday Presentation

Plans for the McGrath Highway, a crumbling roadway with an overpass many in Somerville want to see torn down, will be discussed Wednesday night at a presentation hosted by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

MassDOT has spent nearly two years conducting a study of the roadway. The study is called, "Grounding McGrath: Determining the Future of the Route 28 Corridor."

The state transportation department will present draft recommendations from the study at a meeting scheduled to take place at the Argenziano School at 6 p.m.

At a public meeting about the study held in spring of 2012, many members of a passionate crowd urged MassDOT to tear down the McCarthy Overpass, the elevated part of McGrath Highway, immediately. Doing so would bring the road to street level.

At the time, MassDOT was planning to spend about $11 million to make short-term repairs to the highway while it worked on designing, permitting and constructing a street-level roadway to take its place—a process MassDOT said would take about 10 years.

Some repair work on the highway began in July of 2012.

To learn more about the McGrath Highway study, visit MassDOT's website about the project.

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