Beckley Road bridge won't be fixed this summer
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Monday, July 12, 2010 - 10:20am
Due to an extended permitting process, the Beckley Road Bridge Reconstruction Project will not take place this summer. During the July 6 Town Council meeting, the panel approved using a temporary bridge for another year, but the cost of that option left some officials and residents extremely frustrated.
“It’s totally unacceptable to be renting a bridge for as long as we have and to be wasting so much money,” said Councilor Karen Drost.
After the Public Works Department found out the bridge was deteriorating in 2007, and only holding a capacity of less than 10 tons, it did a formal Department of Transportation inspection and from there put up the temporary bridge in 2008 as a public safety precaution.
“Without a temporary bridge it would of caused a great number of issues for the East Berlin Fire Department and many traffic accidents,” said Art Simonian, public works director.
For more on this story see the July 15 edition of The Citizen.
