BY JILLIAN JORGESENCommunity 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 to serve 2010 and beyond,” Town Councilor Bill Dermody said Monday, when he sat down ...

BY JILLIAN JORGENSENTown 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 Plan during a public hearing on Sept. 28. The project, which was estimated to cost $7 ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe 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 now seeks approval and a sight-distance waiver at the board’s Monday, July 14, ...

BY JENN McDOWELLAbout 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 money for improvements in March. On Tuesday, June 24, town officials hosted a public forum so ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe 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 told the town this spring that it could not install a light at the intersection, which is ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONEFor 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, and it does not include renovations to Route 101 in Bedford. The new 10-year plan focuses ...

BY CHRIS QUARTARONENew 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 Hampshire’s highway plan had grown from a 10-year plan to a 35-year plan,” Lynch said ...

Route 101 at the Bedford/Amherst border stayed closed from early April 16, 2007, to about 10:30 p.m.  (The Bedford Bulletin/Kevin Shalvey)

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 they replaced a culvert under the broken Gault Road, she said. “The point is, the ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEYHannaford 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. “Our group is disappointed in the planning board,” he said. “What this does ...