PROVINCETOWN - The Bradford Access Project is ready to roll.

A building permit issued on Friday will allow the proposed building of a funicular, a rail car that will shuttle people from the Bas Relief Park on Bradford Street up the hill to the Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum. The project is gaining steam after neighbors dropped a lawsuit earlier in the month to prevent the funicular from moving forward.

Construction is now set to begin. The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, owner of the Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum, will put a construction fence around the building zone after Labor Day, according to K. David Weidner, PMPM executive director.

Weidner expects the project to take nine months once construction starts, and he hopes it will start moving passengers before the beginning of next summer’s 400th anniversary celebration of the Pilgrims landing in Provincetown.

In December 2018, the planning board approved the enclosed cabin that will carry people 80 feet up a narrow track from the Bas Relief Park on Bradford Street to the Pilgrim Monument atop High Pole Hill. Since then, the project has been granted all other necessary approvals to begin construction, but not without controversy.

In January, Paul Teixeira of Chelsea, who is a trustee of the abutting condominium building at 116 Bradford St., filed a suit in Massachusetts Land Court against the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association and the planning board.

Teixeira was skeptical the hill could support the 50-ton railway system, and he didn’t believe the town had taken proper measures to ensure that it would, stated Teixeira’s attorney, Julie Pruitt Barry of Prince Lobel Tye, in court documents.

Teixeira believed the planning board did not obtain a geologic study that demonstrates the hill can support all that weight, did not conduct a site visit of Teixeira’s property, did not provide an adequate traffic study and did not consider alternatives to the funicular, Barry wrote.

Teixeira, however, has dropped the suit because he and the Pilgrim Memorial Association have reached a settlement. Barry told the Banner Monday both parties “have resolved their differences,” and so the case was dismissed. She declined to comment further on the matter.

In September 2018, Weidner stated the expected cost of the project to be $2.2 million. It will be paid for by the nonprofit PMPM through fundraising and admission sales. But the exact cost won’t be known until the construction bids are returned.

“Once bidding is complete, we will have a solid cost estimate for the project,” said Weidner.