Highway & ITS

Highway / Intelligent Transportation Systems

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) help ease roadway traffic congestion and improve safety. MEC has installed several intelligent transportation systems, including arterial management systems, freeway management systems and electronic payment and pricing systems.

MEC has brought the same project control tools and culture of success, which originated in our rail market, to the ITS market with great success across the United States. Specializing in both mega-project alternate delivery methods and small projects, MEC has the right people, equipment and culture to deliver.

Intercounty Connector Contract B

Montgomery County, Md.

Construction on the eighteen miles of the six-lane, multimodal Intercounty Connector (ICC) variable toll highway began in 2007 and was fully completed in 2014. With the successful completion of similar highway and ITS projects in Colorado, Florida, and Massachusetts, MEC was selected to complete the ICC Contract B (ICCB) segment of the five-phase ICC design-build project.

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WMATA Replacement of Traction Power Equipment

Washington, D.C.

This design-build project included the replacement of traction power equipment in thirty-three existing substations and building a training simulator at WMATA’s Telegraph Road facility. 

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Central Artery/Tunnel Electrical Finishes

Boston, Mass.

When it opened in 1959, the original Central Artery comfortably carried about 75,000 vehicles a day. By the late 1980s, it carried upwards of 200,000, making it one of the most congested highways in the United States. This extraordinary traffic mess, often congested for 16 hours per day, represented a continuous economic and quality-of-life drain on Boston and New England.

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Delaware River Bridge Security System

Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Mass. Electric Construction Co. (MEC) was the prime contractor for the installation of a security system on eighteen bridges over the Delaware River. The scope of work included the installation of 300 CCTV cameras covering a span of 140 miles and included seven facilities.

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Leonard P. Zakim / Bunker Hill Bridge

Boston, Mass.

As the signature of Boston’s Big Dig project, the Leonard P. Zakim/Bunker Hill Bridge (Zakim Bridge), completed in 2002 and fully opened in 2004 is not only the world’s widest asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge, but it is also the first asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge in the nation. The bridge, which spans from Boston’s North End to Charlestown, MA, consists of ten lanes, and merges I-93 and U.S. Route 1 traffic across the Charles River, into and out of the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Tunnel.

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Central Artery/Tunnel Security Project

Boston, Mass.

In light of the threat presented by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority had to come up with a way to monitor its new $15 Billion underground highway. Mass. Electric Construction Co. (MEC) was selected to be the installer for the security system, which would allow the new Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) system to be monitored from one central location.

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