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Work Set To Begin This Week To Replace Highway 97 Bridge
January 4, 2018
Construction activities are scheduled to begin this week on Highway 97 in Walnut Hill as crews replace the current bridge over Sandy Hollow Creek, about a mile south of Highway 4. The existing wooden-support bridge constructed in 1940 will be replaced with a new concrete structure with 12-foot travel lanes, eight-foot shoulders and a solid concrete barrier railing. The bridge approaches will also be milled and resurfaced.
Crews will begin clearing trees and shrubs to build a temporary detour bridge to the east of the existing structure. Once completed, traffic will be shifted to the temporary bridge as crews begin construction of the new structure. There will be weight restrictions on the temporary bridge. Vehicles weighing over 88,000 pounds and cranes will be prohibited. Work is anticipated to be complete in a little less than one year, weather permitting.
The temporary bridge will have a reduced speed limit of 45 mph.
The bridge has an average daily traffic count of about 5,000 vehicles. The project is expected to cost $5 million.
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2 Responses to “Work Set To Begin This Week To Replace Highway 97 Bridge”
You’re killin me
Guardrails on a bridge deck which narrows the road……brilliant…….this bridge should have been shut down the day after the person with dementia put guardrails on the bridge deck……..good riddance to bridges which endanger the public, and may those who make such dangerous decisions find employment in another state.