Capital Projects & Planning
The Department of Public Works (DPW) is responsible for managing the Town’s infrastructure assets, including its roads, intersections, water and sewer utilities, and drainage systems. Capital planning activities include programming and implementation of the Town’s Pavement Management Plan, Water System Study, and various sewer studies. The DPW also manages the Town’s Chapter 90 road program and is responsible for long term planning on corridors such as Common Street and Mount Auburn Street. Please monitor this section for project-specific updates.
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2018 Road Program (PDF)
View a presentation outlining the 2018 Road Program.
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Common Street
The goal of this project is to provide a “complete streets” approach to the Common Street corridor to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, improve traffic operations, and increase safety at the five-legged intersection of Common Street, Orchard Street, and Church Street.
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Community Path
The Watertown Community Path is a proposed multi-use path that will provide pedestrians and bicyclists with a safe and easily accessible route through much of Watertown.
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Edenfield Avenue Green Streets
Working with the Charles River Watershed Association, and with partial funding from EPA, the Town is reconstructing Edenfield Avenue using a “green streets” approach.
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Hosmer School Safe Routes to School
The goals of this project are to encourage elementary school students to walk and bike to school, and enhance safety for all users by providing a safe path of travel in the project area.
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MassDOT Pedestrian/Bike Improvement Project (PDF)
Learn more about MassDOT's pedestrian and biking improvements to Pleasant Street and Howard Street.
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Mount Auburn Street
The Town of Watertown is redesigning Mount Auburn Street to improve safety and better accommodate vehicles, transit, bicycles, and pedestrians.
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Watertown Complete Streets
A Complete Street is one that provides safe and accessible options for all travel modes – walking, biking, transit, and motorized vehicles – for people of all ages and abilities. Designing streets with these principles contributes toward the safety, health, economic viability and quality of life in a community by improving the pedestrian and vehicular environments and providing safer, more accessible and comfortable means of travel between home, school, work, recreation and retail destinations.