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Home SCHA Roads Project Officers & Board Members Dock & Dinghy Policy Kayak Racks more... WILLS WORK ROAD UPDATE March 26, 2019 - For your information. This is an article updating the status of the Town of Mashpee and State plans for Wills Work Rd. and Callie's Beach. Frustration Mounts Over Lack of Progress On Will's Work Road By SAM HOUGHTON Town officials see potential for a town -owned beach at the end of Will's Work Road in the South Cape Beach reserve. Selectman Thomas F. O'Hara envisions what would be Mashpee's only town -owned marina. "What an asset that would be to the town," Mr. O'Hara said. He imagines shoppers taking an Uber to the beach from Mashpee Commons, and possibly taking in the sunset over Waquoit Bay with a cocktail. For town manager Rodney C. Collins, his vision, at least in public, is a little more humble, but he has high hopes for the beach nonetheless. He wants a paved road with a proper parking lot at the end of the road; one that will not nearly cut through a residential area. As it stands now, the road is regraded annually by the state. But often, the road has numerous lumps and puddles, which emergency personnel view as a security threat. Emergency vehicles can have difficulty traversing the road. Also, realigning the road will grant some relief to its neighbors, a development known as Whippoorwill, Residents in the area have complained that beachgoers, often late at night, mistake their road for the entrance to Will's Work Road. The problem is, though, that the state has yet to move on the long -wished -for realignment of the road. "The lack of progress with the realignment has been very frustrating," Mr. Collins said in an interview this week. The town manager's comments follows a legislative update at a Mashpee Board of Selectmen's meeting on