Traffic Impacts at Muddy River Site Wednesday

You may want to avoid driving around the roads encircling the Muddy River project on Wednesday, and again next week.

Work crews will be closing down a lane of traffic on either side of the traffic island at the at the intersection of Brookline Ave., Boylston St., and Park Drive during most of the Day on Wednesday. 

The work is needed to backfill a trench located on the traffic island. 

A pedestrian crosswalk will also be slightly moved. 

The work will run from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10th. 

Don't be surprised to see state police, cones and barrels in the area. 

Muddy river officials also noted that next week, more lane closures are needed for construction work at the project site. 

From July 15 to July 19, traffic on the Riverway and the Riverway Connector will also be down a lane as construction crews install traffic conduits in those areas. 

Work has been underway since early spring on the $93 million Muddy River Restoration Project. Once completed, the areas in the Fenway where the Muddy River had been covered up will be restored back to its original design. 

Phase 1, which is expected to be completed in three years and cost $31 million, will involve day-lighting of the river between the Riverway and Avenue Louis Pasteur by removing two 72-inch culverts, the installation of two 24-foot x 10-foot precast concrete culverts under the Riverway and Boylston Street, vehicular traffic and pedestrian improvements and significant landscape improvements to new and existing sections of the river channel.