A distraught Cape Cod widow will see her home of more than 24 years demolished to make way for a new bridge.
Joyce Michaud, 80, is among 13 unlucky residents who will have their properties flattened by Massachusetts officials as part of the $2.1 billion project to replace the Sagamore Bridge.
Michaud’s three-bedroom home will bulldozed to make room for workers’ equipment, and will eventually become a basin to catch storm water rolling off the bridge, The Boston Globe reported.
‘[I thought:] “I’m all set. My kids don’t have to worry. I’m all set”,’ she told The Globe. ‘And now, I’m not.
‘It’s really hard to lose something that you thought was yours.’
The residence is being seized through eminent domain, which allows the state to take property for public use.
An additional 17 properties will be partially acquired. Seven vacant properties will also be seized.
Meanwhile neighbors who have been spared demolition say they are dreading the onslaught of traffic and noisy works which will take place for the next ten years during construction of the new bridge, which connected Cape Cod to the mainland.
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