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New Boston Street Bridge Reopens in Woburn, Mass. A long-awaited transportation project decades in the making reached its conclusion in Woburn as state and local officials recently celebrated the completion of the New Boston Street bridge replacement and dedicated the new structure as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge. The $26.9 million project replaces a bridge that had served as an important connection over the MBTA Lowell Line while also restoring a link between neighborhoods that had been disrupted for nearly 50 years. The completed project is expected to improve traffic flow, pedestrian access and connections to public transportation while supporting continued housing and economic development in the area. The dedication also gives the bridge a lasting connection to Woburn’s veterans. More than 1,700 Vietnam veterans call the city home, and the new name is intended to recognize their service and sacrifice. “Strong roads and bridges are essential to strong communities,” Gov. Maura Healey said, emphasizing the state’s broader investment in transportation infrastructure. “The new Boston Street Bridge will serve Woburn residents, workers, visitors and businesses for generations, and I’m especially proud that it will carry the name and honor the more than 1,700 Vietnam veterans who call Woburn home.” The bridge project represents more than the replacement of an aging structure. For Woburn, it restores a connection that city officials and community advocates have pursued for decades and creates a more modern transportation corridor in an area positioned for additional growth. Connection Nearly 50 Years in the Making The original New Boston Street bridge had long been a significant piece of Woburn’s transportation network, carrying vehicles over the Lowell Line. Its replacement has been discussed and pursued over many years, with local and state officials working through the funding, design and legislative steps needed to bring the project to construction. The result is a new bridge with two vehicular travel lanes, two shoulders and two sidewalks, providing space for motorists, pedestrians and other users of the corridor. The project went beyond the bridge itself. Approximately 1,800 ft. of New Boston Street was reconstructed, including new pavement, sidewalks and wheelchair ramps. The work also included drainage improvements, new pavement markings and signage, as well as other upgrades necessary to integrate the new bridge into the surrounding roadway. Together, those improvements create a substantially rebuilt transportation corridor rather than simply replacing the bridge deck

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and structure. For residents of North Woburn, the project is particularly significant because it restores a connection that had been lost for decades. “It’s gratifying to drive over the new bridge knowing how many people have worked for decades to rebuild this critical connector to our thriving North Woburn neighborhoods,” Mayor Michael Concannon said. The mayor also highlighted the decision to dedicate the bridge to Vietnam veterans, saying the project provides essential infrastructure while ensuring that the sacrifices of local veterans remain visible to the community.

including voting to fund the bridge’s design, and later helped advance legislation in the State House to formally dedicate the structure to Vietnam veterans. “For the first time in nearly 50 years, this bridge restores an important connection that was lost decades ago, helping drive continued housing and economic development in the area while providing easier access to public transportation for thousands of commuters,” Haggerty said. He added that the memorial designation will help preserve the memory of local veterans and their families for future generations.

Years of Collaboration Come to End The completion of the bridge reflects years of coordination among MassDOT, the city of Woburn, state legislators and other transportation and community stakeholders. State Sen. Cindy Friedman credited her predecessor, former state Sen. Ken Donnelly, with helping develop the project and said its Eric Goralnick completion demonstrates what can be accomplished through sustained Veterans Services Secretary cooperation among state and local partners. “Replacing the New Boston Street Bridge strengthens local approximately $26.9 million, representing a substantial state and local investment in infrastructure, improves transportation access, and supports long-term economic Woburn’s transportation infrastructure. growth,” Friedman said. “The completion Memorial Built Into City’s Trans- of this project reflects years of collaboration between state agencies, local partners, and portation Network While the project addresses longstanding community advocates.” For MassDOT, the project also is part of a transportation needs, its new name gives it larger effort to upgrade bridges and roadways another purpose: creating a permanent public throughout Massachusetts. memorial to Woburn’s Vietnam veterans. Interim Transportation Secretary and The designation is particularly meaningful because it places the memorial on a piece of MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said infrastructure that thousands of people will the new structure will provide a long-term connection for residents and commuters encounter as part of their daily routines. Veterans Services Secretary Eric while recognizing the service of Woburn’s Goralnick said the dedication offers travelers Vietnam veterans. The completed bridge now serves an opportunity to remember those who both purposes: it is a functional piece of served. “Every time a traveler uses this bridge, transportation infrastructure designed to we encourage them to remember those support Woburn’s future, and a permanent who have sacrificed so much to defend reminder of the people whose military our freedoms, and especially our service service helped shape the community. With construction complete, the New members from Woburn who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation,” Boston Street corridor has been returned to service with a modern bridge, reconstructed Goralnick said. The bridge’s designation was supported roadway, improved pedestrian facilities and through legislation sponsored by State upgraded drainage and traffic infrastructure. Rep. Richard M. Haggerty, who represents For Woburn, the project closes a chapter that Woburn and was involved with the project began decades ago — and opens a new one focused on connectivity, development and from its earlier stages. Haggerty said he worked on the effort first preserving the memory of the city’s veterans. as a member of the Woburn City Council, 

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CTDOT Plans Rehab of Route 8 Span Over Rosbach Brook The Connecticut Department of Transportation is moving forward with plans to rehabilitate a Route 8 bridge over Rosbach Brook in Torrington, a project intended to address structural deficiencies and extend the useful life of the state-owned crossing. The project involves Bridge No. 07060, which carries Route 8 over Rosbach Brook. CTDOT is currently developing a Rehabilitation Study Report that will examine the condition of the existing structure and evaluate potential approaches for bringing it back to a satisfactory state of repair. At this stage, the study is expected to consider both rehabilitation and replacement alternatives before a final approach is selected. The project is part of a broader effort by CTDOT to maintain the Route 8 corridor and its numerous bridges in northwestern Connecticut. Route 8 is an important northsouth highway serving the Naugatuck Valley and communities including Torrington and Winchester. CTDOT has several other bridge projects under way or in development along the Torrington portion of the corridor, including a multiyear effort to metallize 19 bridges between Torrington and Colebrook. That project is intended to protect structural steel, address deterioration and extend the service life of the bridges. The proposed rehabilitation of Bridge

07060 is separate from that metallizing program. The metallizing project focuses primarily on protecting structural steel on existing bridges, while the Rosbach Brook project is being developed specifically to address structural deficiencies in Bridge 07060. CTDOT’s approach of developing a rehabilitation study before construction reflects the department’s practice of evaluating the condition and needs of individual structures before determining whether rehabilitation or replacement is the appropriate long-term solution.

Design to Continue Through 2030 The current schedule calls for design of the Rosbach Brook bridge project to be completed in September 2030. Construction is anticipated to begin in spring 2031, although that schedule remains contingent on several factors, including acceptance of the project, availability of funding, acquisition of any required right-of-way and receipt of necessary environmental permits. The long lead time reflects the fact that the project remains in the planning and design phase. The rehabilitation study will help establish the eventual scope of construction, meaning specific repairs and improvements cannot yet be determined.

CTDOT has used similar study processes on other Route 8 bridges. For example, the department recently announced plans to rehabilitate Bridge No. 00572, which carries Route 8 over the Housatonic Railroad in Derby. That project is intended to address structural deficiencies, maintain major bridge elements at a Fair or better National Bridge Inventory condition rating, and bring the bridge into compliance with CTDOT load-rating requirements. The department also is planning rehabilitation work on five Route 8 bridges in Harwinton, Litchfield and Thomaston. That project is expected to begin construction in 2028 and, like the Rosbach Brook project, is funded with an 80 percent federal and 20 percent state funding split. Part of Continued Investment in Route 8 The Rosbach Brook bridge project comes as CTDOT continues a significant program of bridge preservation and rehabilitation along Route 8. In recent years, the department has undertaken both large-scale reconstruction and smaller preservation projects along the highway. Farther south, CTDOT completed the $223 million Route 8/I-84 Mixmaster rehabilitation project in Waterbury in 2024.

That project included extensive work on dozens of bridge spans, including deck replacements, structural strengthening, steel repairs, joint work and substructure repairs, with the goal of extending the service life of the interchange. In Torrington and neighboring communities, CTDOT also is continuing work under Project 0065-0114, a $15.76 million contract awarded to Allied Painting Inc. to metallize bridges along Route 8. The project covers structures in Torrington, Winchester and Colebrook and is scheduled to continue through 2027. The Bridge 07060 project will therefore represent another piece of the state’s longer-term effort to preserve Route 8 infrastructure. While construction remains several years away, the rehabilitation study now being prepared will be an important step in determining how the Rosbach Brook crossing will be treated and what work will ultimately be required. The project will be funded with 80 percent federal and 20 percent state funds. CTDOT’s current schedule anticipates completion of design in September 2030 and the start of construction in spring 2031, subject to project approval, funding, right-of-way requirements and environmental permitting. 

Conn. Plans 2027 Pavement Preservation On Route 2 The Connecticut Department of Transportation is developing plans for a pavement preservation project that will address a roughly 5.8-mi. section of Route 2 in Colchester and Marlborough during the 2027 construction season. The project will involve milling and overlaying the existing pavement on both the eastbound and westbound sides of Route 2. The work is intended to preserve the highway before more extensive pavement deterioration occurs and is part of CTDOT’s broader approach to maintaining the state’s transportation infrastructure. On the eastbound side, the project will begin in Marlborough near Bridge No. 01710, which carries Park Road over Route 2, at approximately Mile Point 14.60. From there, the work will continue east into Colchester, ending at Bridge No. 03461, where Route 2 passes over Route 149, also known as Westchester Road, at approximately Mile

Point 20.37. The westbound project limits are essentially the reverse. Work will begin in Colchester at Bridge No. 00392, where Route 2 crosses over Route 149 at Mile Point 20.37, and continue west to the vicinity of Bridge No. 01710 in Marlborough. In addition to the mainline highway, the project will include pavement treatment on associated Route 2 on- and off-ramps. CTDOT anticipates that some ramps may need to be closed temporarily while construction activities are underway. If closures are necessary, the department says short-term, off-peak detours will be used to maintain access while limiting disruption to motorists.

Preserving Route 2 Before Major Reconstruction Rather than waiting for pavement to deteriorate to the point where full-depth

reconstruction is required, pavement preservation projects use treatments such as milling and resurfacing to extend the useful life of a roadway. CTDOT’s pavement preservation program is tied to the department’s Transportation Asset Management Plan, or TAMP. The plan provides a framework for managing transportation assets over their life cycles and prioritizing investments based on the condition and performance of roads, bridges and other infrastructure. For a heavily traveled highway such as Route 2, maintaining the pavement while it remains suitable for preservation can help protect the state’s investment in the roadway and improve pavement performance over time. CTDOT said the project is specifically intended to help the department meet its TAMP goals by extending overall pavement life. Route 2 is a major east-west highway

across central and eastern Connecticut. The section included in the project connects Marlborough and Colchester and provides access to surrounding communities and regional destinations. Route 2 also serves as an important connection between the Hartford area and southeastern Connecticut. The project is currently in the design phase. CTDOT’s present schedule calls for design to be completed in October 2026, with construction anticipated to begin in spring 2027. The schedule remains subject to acceptance of the project, availability of funding and receipt of any required right-ofway and environmental permits. The project will be funded entirely with state funds. Because construction is still in the planning stage, CTDOT has not yet released a detailed construction schedule or specific traffic-management plan. 

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product support capabilities and the manufacturers represented by the dealership. According to Richard Longbottom, branch manager of Monroe Tractor’s Massachusetts and Rhode Island operations, the open house was designed to give existing and prospective customers an opportunity to become more familiar with the dealership, its equipment and its personnel. Equipment on display included machines from CASE Construction Equipment and Dynapac, along with snow and ice removal products from Kage and Arctic. Representatives from several manufacturers and suppliers were on hand to discuss their products and answer customer questions. Additional participating companies included engcon, which demonstrated its tiltrotator technology; Okada, which showcased hydraulic hammer offerings; and Digital Iron, a provider of technology solutions for equipment dealerships. One of the highlights was an opportunity for attendees to operate equipment and experience its capabilities firsthand. A Case WX175 wheeled excavator equipped with an engcon tiltrotator was available for demonstrations, allowing customers to see the attachment’s versatility and maneuverability. A Case CX60 excavator also was available for attendees to operate. Adding a competitive element to the day, Monroe Tractor organized an equipment rodeo featuring a Case 580 tractor loader backhoe. Participants tested their operating skills while competing for prizes, including a pressure washer. Additional giveaways included a generator set. Visitors entered through the dealership’s workshop, providing an opportunity to see the service facilities before proceeding to the outdoor equipment displays. Monroe Tractor also showcased its mobile road service truck, highlighting the dealership’s commitment to supporting customers in the field. A food truck provided lunch for attendees, giving customers, dealership employees and manufacturer representatives an opportunity to visit in a relaxed setting. Longbottom said the event was successful in attracting both established customers and individuals who had not previously done business with Monroe Tractor. He added that one attendee, who was not traditionally

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construction method that substantially reduced excavation and helped shorten the project’s schedule. It also can be seen in some of the equipment K2 puts to work. When the company needed to move thousands of yards of material behind a massive retaining wall through an access area only about 8 ft. wide, Vice President Pedro Soares turned to Able Tool & Equipment and Wacker Neuson for an unconventional solution — large articulated site dumpers capable of carrying substantial loads through an area where conventional trucks simply couldn’t operate. For Soares, that’s K2. “We love the most difficult, hard jobs and come up with better ways to do it,” he said. Experience Behind Young Company Although K2 was established in 2021, the experience behind the company goes back decades. Owner Phil Karsen had spent approximately 40 years in the construction industry and had extensive heavy civil experience before starting K2. Soares also had worked his way through the industry, beginning as a laborer and later becoming a foreman. When Karsen formed K2, he reached out to Soares, who initially joined the company as a foreman. It didn’t stay small for long. One of K2’s first major undertakings involved work on an approximately $37 million interchange project at Exit 11 along Interstate 84. K2 partnered with Rizzo Electrical Contractors on the CTDOT award-

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winning project. Karsen’s experience and the relationships both men had developed throughout their careers allowed the new company to start at a level that normally would take a contractor years to reach. “You build these relationships with people and you do what you say you’re going to do

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and you’re honest with people,” Soares said. From there, K2 continued to build its resume, including work along Interstate 95 in East Lyme. The company today performs road construction, retaining walls, drilling, drainage, sewer and water work and other heavy civil construction. It also established

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substantially more excavation into also has developed its own the hillside. K2 proposed a soldierequipment fleet. pile-and-lagging system using But Soares has little interest in drilled casings, piles, soil nails, growing simply for the sake of tiebacks and other stabilization getting bigger. methods. K2’s relatively small CTDOT accepted the management structure is alternative. intentional. The result reduced the amount “I think we’re pretty good where of excavation required and helped we’re at,” Soares said. “Grow a make it possible to work through little bit more, but you only get too more of the winter. big and then it’s a big monster to CTDOT subsequently feed.” announced that the project’s That philosophy gives K2’s anticipated completion had been senior management unusually moved ahead by approximately direct involvement in its projects. two years — from 2028 to 2026. Karsen oversees the ownership For K2, that is what innovation and financial side of the business, is supposed to accomplish. while Soares is heavily involved The objective isn’t to do in operations, safety, equipment, something differently simply for employees and day-to-day project the sake of being different. It is Seen here is one of the two Wacker Neuson DV 90 dual view dumpers used on the $37.2 million to reduce excavation, shorten execution. It is a structure that Rocco CTDOT retainer wall project. schedules, improve safety and Micelotta of Able Tool & ultimately deliver better value to Equipment believes is one of K2’s considerable time reviewing plans and walls had deteriorated to the point that their the project owner. greatest strengths. considering whether there is a safer, faster or integrity was compromised, creating the “We’ll give time back,” Soares said. According to Micelotta, there is very little more efficient way to perform the work. need to stabilize the slope rising from the “Those are substantial savings for the DOT.” wasted motion within the company. Senior “We spend a lot of time on redesigning highway toward Center Cemetery. management is directly involved with the and looking at better ways and more efficient It is a difficult location. Eight-Foot-Wide Problem work, and the company’s resources are ways,” he said. The roadway is squeezed between the Even after K2 developed a more efficient concentrated on completing its projects. That philosophy has been particularly steep slope and river, with limited access and way to construct the wall, another problem “They compete against much larger evident on CTDOT Project 0097-0095 along little room for construction equipment. The remained. companies,” Micelotta said. “The top people Route 44 in Norfolk. slope rises approximately 60 ft. in places, How do you efficiently place large are intimately involved in the projects.” The project was awarded to K2 in April while one of the retaining-wall sections quantities of backfill behind a retaining wall 2024 for approximately $37.2 million and extends approximately 1,300 ft. when you have only about 8 ft. of working Looking at Projects Differently includes replacement of retaining walls, Rather than simply build the project width? K2’s willingness to challenge conventional stabilization of the northern slope along exactly as originally designed, K2 proposed At portions of the project, conventional construction methods has become another Route 44, roadway reconstruction, drainage a different approach. triaxle trucks simply could not get behind defining characteristic. improvements and utility work. The original design called for a see K2 page 16 Soares said the company spends The existing rubble masonry retaining mechanically stabilized earth wall requiring

The Wacker Neuson DV 90 is an extremely flexible machine, featuring a 180-degree rotating operator station. Instead of driving into the confined area and then attempting to turn the entire machine around, the operator can rotate the seat and controls and drive back out while facing the direction of travel.

When the company needed to move thousands of yards of material behind a massive retaining wall through an access area only about 8 ft. wide, Vice President Pedro Soares turned to Able Tool & Equipment and Wacker Neuson for an unconventional solution — large articulated site dumpers capable of carrying substantial loads through an area where conventional trucks simply couldn’t operate.

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the wall. Skid steers could fit, but their limited carrying capacity would have required an enormous number of trips. Soares needed something between the two. That’s where Able Tool & Equipment and Wacker Neuson entered the picture. K2 had already developed a relationship with Able Tool and its president, Derek Bauer. Soares knew Bauer from his earlier years in the industry, and after K2 was established, the relationship expanded considerably. On an earlier East Lyme project, K2 placed an approximately $250,000 As the retaining wall was constructed, only an 8-ft.-wide access road could be built. This created a significant challenge when order with Able Tool for generators, placing large amounts of backfill and finding equipment with a small enough footprint to operate effectively in such a narpumps, concrete buckets and other row area. equipment. Downtime is something Soares takes particularly seriously. For a newly established contractor, that required trust on route K2 had created behind the retaining wall. “There was no place to turn around,” Soares said. When K2 established its drilling operation, for example, both sides. K2 ultimately put two dumpers into the operation. he asked what components were most likely to fail and “We gave him our word, and we paid him on time,” Soares Material could be loaded at the lower end, carried along stocked duplicates at the job site. When parts eventually said. “We still do. And that’s how we built our relationship the narrow route and placed behind the wall, where another failed, crews could make repairs immediately rather than with Derek.” machine graded the fill. K2 also created a pull-off area that wait for replacements. That relationship has continued to grow. “We used it all,” Soares said. “And we had no downtime K2 operates without a full-time mechanic for its smaller allowed the two dumpers to pass one another. The result was essentially a small material-handling besides the time it took us to drive a mile to pick up the tool equipment and relies heavily on Able Tool for service and assembly line. or the piece that broke, replace it, put it back and go back to support of small engines, tools and specialty equipment. An excavator loaded the dumper, the operator hauled the work.” More importantly, Soares said Able is willing to work Able Tool plays a similar role by maintaining the service through unusual equipment problems with him rather than material behind the wall, the load was dumped and graded and the dumper returned for another load. capabilities and replacement equipment necessary to keep simply sell what happens to be sitting in inventory. Back and forth, all day. K2 working. That became particularly important in Norfolk. The system allowed K2 to move considerably more “If the Wacker breaks, they’re there,” Soares said. material per cycle than it could have handled with skid steers Wacker Dumpers Provide the Answer Lean By Design Soares contacted Able Tool looking for a way to move while operating in a location inaccessible to conventional trucks. For a contractor performing projects approaching $40 material safely through the extremely narrow area behind the For Micelotta, the application is a good example of what million, K2’s operation can be surprisingly understated. wall. happens when K2’s approach to construction is combined The company doesn’t maintain a large corporate staff. The initial solution was a smaller Wacker Neuson dumper. It doesn’t even devote significant resources to a website or It didn’t take Soares long to realize the concept worked — with Able Tool’s approach to equipment. Soares understood precisely what he was trying to social media presence. but he wanted more production. That isn’t where K2 wants to put its energy. “Second day in, I was like, ‘I want a bigger one. And I accomplish. Able Tool helped find equipment capable of making it happen. The emphasis is on the work. want two here,’” he said. Micelotta recalled first visiting K2 and expecting a much Able Tool responded by supplying Wacker Neuson DV90 larger corporate operation based on the scope of projects the Able Relationship Goes Beyond Equipment Dual View dumpers. The Wacker Neuson dumpers aren’t the first example of company performs. The DV90 occupies an unusual position between compact Instead, he found a lean organization where management’s material-moving equipment and much larger articulated haul that relationship. When K2 expanded into drilling and soil-nail work, it attention and resources were concentrated almost entirely on trucks. According to Wacker Neuson, the machine offers a needed a specialized grout plant. The readily available units executing projects. payload of approximately 19,842 lbs., or 9 metric tons, and a That, he believes, helps explain how a company founded heaped skip capacity of approximately 6 cu. yds. It measures weren’t large enough for what Soares wanted. Rather than settle for something that didn’t fit the only five years ago can compete successfully with contractors approximately 95 in. wide. For K2’s application, however, capacity was only part of application, Soares and Able Tool continued working through that have been established for generations. the problem until a larger custom system could be sourced. Hard work is part of it. Experience is another. the attraction. But perhaps the biggest difference is K2’s willingness to The DV90 features a 180-degree rotating operator station. K2 and Able worked together with Chemgrout to determine Instead of driving into the confined area and then attempting what would work best and what parts the company would look at a difficult project and refuse to assume the traditional method is necessarily the best method. to turn the entire machine around, the operator can rotate stock on-hand. That type of problem-solving is important to K2. That can mean redesigning a retaining wall. It can mean the seat and controls and drive back out while facing the “When I call, I want something, I get it,” Soares said. establishing an in-house drilling operation. Or it can mean direction of travel. From within the all-glass cab and rotating operator station, “They know me personally. They know we’re going to pay. I looking at an 8-ft.-wide path behind a massive retaining wall and figuring out how to turn it into an efficient haul the dumper operators could work very closely and safely to know I’m going to get the product.” He added that the real value of a strong vendor becomes road. laborers and workers climbing up and down the hill because “We love the most difficult, hard jobs,” Soares said. of excellent visibility. It would have been too close and apparent when the original plan doesn’t work. “If we’re in some type of issue and they can’t get the And then K2 looks for a better way to build them.  CEG unsafe to do with larger trucks. Also, dumpers allow anyone product, we can talk through it and keep moving on the (All photos courtesy of Able Tool & Equipment and to run them with no special licensing. Wacker Neuson.) That was particularly important on the steep, narrow haul project,” he said.

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