Falmouth Select Board has sent a letter of approval (see below) to MassDOT. In addition the Woods Hole Community Association and Senator Moran have sent letters.

We have the above mapping done by Maryam Hosseini a post-doc researcher at MIT and developer of the mapping tool Tile2Net https://www.maryamhosseini.me who has designed the walking path.

Next we need to have a conversation with MassDOT district 5 to discuss next steps.

Letter from Select Board:

Ms. Mary-Joe Perry, District Highway Director

MassDOT District 5

1000 County Street

Taunton, MA 02780

July 11, 2023

Re: Proposed Shared Use Path/ Sidewalk on Woods Hole Road

Dear Ms. Perry,

We request your office investigate and ultimately construct a Shared use Path or Sidewalk along Woods Hole Road from Kettle Hole Road (where the current sidewalk terminates) to the existing sidewalk at Harbor Hill Road (where the current sidewalk continues to Woods Hole), a distance of approximately 2.6 miles.  

As you know, this road experiences in excess of 10,000 trips per day.  

Eliminating the pedestrian and bicycle gap in connectivity between Main Street in Falmouth and the Village of Woods Hole and the Ferry to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket would provide a significant improvement to the health and safety of the Falmouth community and our visitors.

As part of this project we also request a crossing be provided at the signalized intersection of Woods Hole Road and Oyster Pond and Quissett Harbor Roads. 

The current signal does not allow for a crossing signal to be implemented.

Please contact our office if we can provide additional information.

Nancy Taylor

Chair, Falmouth Select Board