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• Bank goes to planners

  BY JENN McDOWELL The Bedford Planning Board will take up the final approval of proposed bank for the intersection of Nashua Road and Route 101. Route 101/Nashua Road Realty has appeared before the board several times with its plan to build a bank and Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:32 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Route 101, Road work, planning board

• Town split on Rt. 101 fix

  BY JENN McDOWELL About 45 Bedford residents showed up at a meeting aimed at gauging public sentiment on putting up money for road improvements to the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Road. Voters already overturned a request to use $3 million in town Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:51 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Route 101, Road work, town council, NH Dept of Transportation

• Route 101 cost reduced

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The town may be able to get a traffic light at the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Road for about $300,000 to $400,000 – a lot less than what the state first told the community it would cost. The state Department of Transportation Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 7:58 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Route 101, Road work, Department of Transportation

• Airport road is on its way

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY The project that will provide access to the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport through Bedford is on track for an opening date of 2013. In total, the state project will cost about $174 million, and will run from the airport on Brown Avenue Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:41 PM by Bedford Editor | 3 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Manchester, Road work, airport

• Quick fix seen for Nashua Road

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The specter of impatient and inexperienced high school drivers making risky left-hand turns onto Route 101 from Nashua Road may yet be averted. A meeting on Tuesday, April 29, at BCTV between state officials and Bedford town and school Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:55 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Road work, Bedford High, Nashua Road

• Bedford town council seeks unity and communication

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The Town Council is hoping to close the door on 2007 – a year marked by division and discord – and move on to the challenges it faces this year. The town road program, rising taxes and the intersection of Route 101 and Nashua Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:20 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Taxes, Road work, town council

• Council to map road program’s future

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The Town Council has decided the town will work on rebuilding Hardy Road this year since more traffic is expected after the reconstruction of its intersection with Route 101 and Jenkins Road. For the past few years, the town has been Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:00 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Bedford, elections, Road work, town council

• Housing complex goes to planners

  BY JENN McDOWELL Bedford’s Planning Board will continue to hear plans to construct a mixed commercial and residential development for a 40-acre parcel of land by the intersection of Old Bedford Road and Route 101. The plans include a restaurant, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:58 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Road work, planning board

• Access road a go

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY The Bedford School District will now be able to move forward with its land purchase-and-sales agreement and begin plans to build an emergency access road to Bedford High School, as voters narrowly approved the article on Election Day. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:57 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Road work, Bedford High, School Board, land

• Voters fail to support road bonds

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The defeat of two bonds has imperiled the future of the town road program and opened the possibility that the intersection of Nashua Road and Route 101 will not be improved in time for a new class of high school drivers. A majority of Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:54 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, elections, Voting, Road work

• School Board defends $275K land buy

  BY MATT SCHOOLEY Taxpayers will be asked to approve School District Warrant Article 2, to purchase a 1.3-acre parcel of land for $275,000, and to fund a new emergency access to the middle/high school site. Although the 1.3-acre parcel has never been appraised, Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:24 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Voting, Road work, School Board

• Bedford residents divided on two road bonds

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Supporters of two different road bonds agreed on only one thing at a hearing last Monday – nothing less than the safety of drivers is at stake in the outcome. One $12 million bond has been placed on the March ballot through a citizen Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:34 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Citizen Petitions, Voting, Road work, bonds

• Nixing Route 101 from state’s transportation plan brings mixed reactions on costs, safety

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE For years, the state had planned to expand Route 101 in Bedford, but they won’t be starting anytime soon. On Jan. 15, New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch submitted the state’s 10-year highway transportation plan to the Legislature, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:38 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Route 101, Road work, roads

• Route 101 taken off state’s 10-year plan

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch submitted the state’s 10- year highway transportation plan to the Legislature, bumping Route 101 in Bedford off the list. The plan, if passed, would cut nearly $2 billion in projects. “New Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:51 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Route 101, Road work, roads

• Town Council adds $3 million for access road improvements

  BY CHRIS QUARTARONE The Bedford Town Council took on an estimated $3 million for road improvements, which coincide with the secondary access project to the high school, onto its proposed $12 million road bond. The $3 million is in addition to the $12 Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:39 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Taxes, Road work, town council