Piety Corner Redesign

Estimated completion date Summer 2023
Piety Corner Redesign

Project Overview: Crews will be reconstructing the Piety Corner (Lexington St/Totten Pond Rd/Bacon St) intersection. The city acquired the property at 380 Lexington St to accommodate the widening of the intersection. These updates will improve overall safety & mobility, improve vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian accomodation & accessibility, and improve the existing infrastructure. 


Project Updates:

  • Update as of 5/23/23
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  • Update as of 5/12/23
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  • Update as of 4/20/23
    Significant progress is being made on the Piety Corner (Lexington St/Totten Pond Rd/Bacon St) intersection reconstruction. The majority of the new pavement was poured. The new traffic signals and mast arms have been installed. The contractor is continuing with constructing the new sidewalks along Totten Pond Road.

    By approximately mid-May, the new traffic signal heads facing the Totten Pond Road approach should be activated, and the eastbound Totten Pond Road traffic (only the traffic heading towards Lexington St) will shift over to the new roadway. For a while, the westbound traffic (vehicles going from Lexington St towards the highway) will remain on the old Totten Pond Rd pavement.

    The project is still on target to be completed some time this summer, and will greatly improve the safety and traffic flow at this intersection.
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  • Update as of 3/6/23
    The construction at the Piety Corner intersection (Lexington Street/Totten Pond Road/Bacon Street) is scheduled to resume at some point in the month of March, depending on the weather. See a full rendering of the new Piety Corner redesign here. Over the preceding fall and winter, the overhead wires were removed from utility poles that were in the way of the new alignment of Totten Pond Road, and those utility poles have now been removed. That has given the roadway contractor the ability to begin constructing the new segment of Totten Pond Road. Once the construction resumes, you will see the contractor building the new roadway, building the new sidewalks, and installing the new traffic signal equipment. Once the new alignment of Totten Pond Road is complete, traffic will shift over to this new alignment, providing a smaller, safer, and more efficient intersection. Then the existing pavement along Totten Pond Road that is no longer needed will be removed, replaced with grass. This entire process will resume in the coming weeks, and is projected to be complete by the summer.
     
  • Update as of 3/13/19
    Click here for Traffic Commission redesign presentation

  • Update as of 3/15/16
    Piety Corner Intersection Options

  • Original Intersection Design
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