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Highway 97 Traffic Detoured Onto Temporary Bridge In Walnut Hill
July 22, 2015
Traffic on Highway 97 in Walnut Hill was transitioned to a temporary roadway and bridge on Tuesday. It’s part of the replacement of a 75-year old Highway 97 bridge over Little Pine Barren Creek.
Work started on the temporary bridge back at the end of March.
The work is part of a $2.5 million contract which consists of replacing the existing structurally deficient bridge, including roadway reconstruction, milling and resurfacing, guardrail, drainage, new signs and pavement markings. Drivers will utilize a temporary roadway and bridge during construction of the new bridge. Work is anticipated to be completed in the spring of 2016. No overweight loads will be permitted onto the temporary bridge (loads weighing over 88-thousand pounds).
The bridge is located at the intersection of Wiggins Lake Road, about one mile north of Ernest Ward Middle School. The bridge being replaced was constructed in 1940.
Pictured: Traffic on Highway 97 was detoured Tuesday onto a temporary bridge in Walnut Hill. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Highway 97 Traffic Detoured Onto Temporary Bridge In Walnut Hill”
The temp bridge has been constructed on private property that does not belong to the state. The state must remove the temp bridge and replace all the dirt that was removed from personal property when construction of new bridge is complete. The state is basically “renting” the private property for a very nominal fee.
Curves? Uhoh!
Waste of money. They should have built the new bridge right next to the old bridge. (Within a few feet) This would have saved a bunch of money that could be use on other projects. The government need to spend our money more wisely, this temp bridge was a waste of money, I bet $750.000.00 or more was spent for this temp bridge that will be torn down and removed in the future. Jus don’t make any sense to me when you could build the new bride right beside the old bridge and realign the road to the new bridge The COMMON Sense Guy.
AHA this is good news, I have driven over that bridge a million times, the last time was Friday.Bye Bye Old Bridge, welcome New Bridge!