MATTAPOISETT — The Town was awarded $450,000 for a new emergency vehicle traffic signal on June 30, according to Rep. Bill Straus’ office.

The signal will be placed along Route 6. adjacent to the new Mattapoisett Fire Station currently being constructed. It will provide safe entry and exit to the station and is intended to improve emergency response.

“This grant money will provide the much needed traffic signal to allow our emergency responders safe entrance and exit from the station as well as alerting motorists travelling on that stretch of roadway that emergency apparatus are exiting the fire station”, said Straus.

Town voters approved a new fire station at the 2018 Town Meeting and the new fire station will be adjacent to the Mattapoisett Police Station. Construction began on the new facility in June of 2020 and the expected completion is slated for the end of Summer 2021.

The road and traffic signal work associated with the new Mattapoisett station on Route 6 is also slated for state transportation funding as a result of a legislative earmark included by Rep. Straus in the 2020 statewide Transportation Bond Bill.