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b'In 2008, The Massachusetts Department of Transportation received $3 billion in dedicated funding to make statewide repairs, improvements and upgrades to its bridges. Since then, the Accelerated Bridge Program has helped reduce the number of structurally deficient bridges by 20 percent, and has done so by using a variety of innovative techniques. One such technique, called a "Heavy Lift", reduced the replacement time for one bridge in Hyde Park from months to mere hours. For more on this technique and the MassDOT bridge program, I spoke with Eliza Partington, a bridge technical coordinator.'