State, feds reach agreement on Cape bridges plan

Massachusetts will move toward what one congressman described as “a new chapter in Cape Cod’s history” through an agreement with the federal government to replace the two bridges connecting the Cape to the mainland with wider, state-controlled successors.

Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Col. William Conde signed a formal memorandum of understanding Tuesday to embark on a yearslong joint project to replace the 85-year-old Bourne and Sagamore bridges, two economic and transportation linchpins that have been functionally obsolete for years despite connecting the roughly 215,000 Cape Cod residents to the rest of Massachusetts.

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