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• Taking another look at Route 101

  BY JILLIAN JORGESEN Community leaders are hoping to convince the Executive Council and Gov. John Lynch to give widening Route 101 another look for inclusion on the 2010 Ten Year Transportation Improvement Plan. “You’ve got a 1950s road trying Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:09 PM by Bedford Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Route 101, road improvements

• Route 101 upgrade cut from transportation plan again

  BY JILLIAN JORGENSEN Town officials and others pleaded their case to representatives from the state Department of Transportation and the Executive Council to put a long-awaited upgrade of Route 101 back on the state’s Ten- Year Transportation Improvement Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:23 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Route 101, road improvements

• 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 | 0 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

• 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 | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Route 101, Road work, roads

• April nor’easter rains down on Bedford, closing roads and flooding properties

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY For Zita Lamb, the flooding in Bedford on Monday, April 16, brought back some bad feelings she had toward the town after last year’s Mother’s Day floods. The town didn’t fix her property’s flooding problem when Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:11 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Merrimack Valley, Bedford, Route 101, flood

• Residents concerned over Route 101’s future

  BY KEVIN SHALVEY Hannaford Supermarket is coming to Route 101 and residents’ opinions are split. Michael Hunter, of the concerned-citizens group Save Our Town, said the store’s final approval sets a bad precedent for Route 101 development. Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:43 PM by Bedford Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Bedford, Hannaford, Route 101