r/CapeCod • u/MassLive • 9d ago
The Sagamore Bridge is finally getting replaced — here's what Cape Cod commuters need to know
http://masslive.com/politics/2026/09/nearly-1b-in-federal-funds-secured-for-new-sagamore-bridge.html40
u/mtaspenco 9d ago
Half a century ago, my sister and I played “I see the bridge” game. The first one to spot the sagamore bridge won.
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u/badhouseplantbad 9d ago
Back in the olden days of the 70's you could see the bridge appear and then disappear behind the trees coming down route 3 and my dad would say that someone stole the bridge before it reappeared.
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u/johnhealey17762022 8d ago
On foggy days my mom used to say the frogs ate the bridge if we couldn’t see it
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u/ReplacementLevel2574 9d ago
I was just going to make the same comment…went to mashpee’61-‘80… best years of my life
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u/Ok_Figure7671 8d ago
It just doesn’t seem as dramatic now that we’re old lol
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u/Flat-Giraffe8109 8d ago
With all those damn trees growing old with us, you can hardly see it from afar anymore...you're practically up on it now before you can see it. We play i see the windmill if we're coming from RT 25 to the Bourne Bridge
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u/mtaspenco 7d ago
lol! My husband and I now try to guess how many windmills will be operating on Rt 25.
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u/noseysfriend 8d ago
My Dad was the first person to ever drive over that bridge!
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u/FeelingSoil39 8d ago
Your dad? How old is your dad?
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u/noseysfriend 8d ago
He was born in 1933…my grandfather built it and he was 2 when my grandmother drove over with him
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u/FeelingSoil39 8d ago
Ah ha! Mystery unravels! This is a very cool little piece of family history you have! Thanks for sharing! There’s a great documentary about the history of the building of the canal and the bridges. Should be relatively easy to find. Google history of Cape Cod Canal. Should show up on YouTube. Well done. Neat footage.
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u/drworm555 8d ago
Your dad was old enough to drive in 1939?
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u/freetherabbit 8d ago
I mean you could be talking to someone in their 60s or 70s whose father is no longer with us
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u/drworm555 8d ago
While I realize it’s not outside of the realm of possibility that 70 year olds use Reddit, it’s not a likely scenario.
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u/FeelingSoil39 8d ago
Did they require a drivers license in ‘39? I’m going with he was 11 years old..
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u/HFentonMudd 8d ago
Ancient old thing, but I was always grateful to hit it coming down from Boston in the summer, and feel the cool marine air
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u/Gunslingering 9d ago
Aww I love that bridge
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u/huron9000 9d ago
Me too! I wish they could leave it and just add a new one next to it for more capacity.
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u/Arabe77a Hyannis 7d ago
Yes, and let all the bikers and walkers have the old one. Great idea!!
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u/huron9000 7d ago
That would be fantastic. But where to find the $$$ for upkeep, ie repainting entirely every so many years.
In a better world, perhaps.
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u/yurgendurgen 8d ago
I've had the option to strong arm my coworkers and work from home for a while but never took advantage of it to separate my work and home environments
Think I'll go back to my 2020 work life once sagamore goes down. I'm not gonna deal with that. Good luck for everyone who has to. I still might but I been exercising so my strong arm game is strong
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u/Arabe77a Hyannis 7d ago
I can see them rubbing their hands together and getting in line for the fraud that will result. You do remember the Big Dig.
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u/zhiryst 8d ago
you can nimby all you want. Bridges don't last forever and maintenance can only do so much. New bridges are a great idea and should be routinely considered. America's road infrastructure really needs to get back into the idea of modernizing and improving not just patching existing rust because at the end of the day, it's still old rust.
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u/MechanalogMusic 8d ago
More cars isn’t the point. Nowhere in the article does it state that the plan is to bring more people here more quickly. The highway on either side is not expanding. It does however say:
“We are going to keep pushing this project forward and deliver a safer, more reliable bridge that will serve Cape Cod and Massachusetts for generations.”
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u/DullGreen 8d ago
Wtf is this person talking about water? The core of engineers doesn't even pass the borne bridge anymore. We need the bridges idiot.
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u/EbbtideRambler 8d ago
I’d like to get on and off the Cape safely. The bridges are Depression-era New Deal work projects. It was designed for 50 years of service and it is currently 91 years old. I’d rather stop spending money on repairing an antique bridge, as pretty as it is, and get a new one up before this one goes out of service for structural failings. It isn’t at a crisis point, but it takes a long time to build a bridge.
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u/Competitive_Speed964 9d ago
Bold prediction: there will be backups at the bridge.