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Charlestown Bridge Fixes Will Snag Travel
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
(Published in print: Saturday, February 28, 2015)
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Charlestown — Motorists crossing the Cheshire Bridge connecting Charlestown with Springfield, Vt., over the Connecticut River can expect delays, possibly this summer, when repairs to the bridge deck are undertaken.
David Scott, the in-house design chief with the Bureau of Bridge Design with the Department of Transportation, said in an interview Friday that DOT is not certain if the $465,000 project, which will be put out to bid in May, will be completed this summer or in 2016.
Scott is scheduled to make a presentation on the work to the Charlestown Selectboard at its meting on April 1.
When the work begins, Scott said they anticipate that for about eight weeks, the bridge will be open to one-way traffic only with flaggers during the day and full, two-way traffic off hours and weekends.
Once the old pavement is removed, the underlying concrete will be patched where it has deteriorated and new steel expansion joints installed at either end.
The bridge will be closed completely for an estimated five days when the final work — which includes cleaning the new deck, put down a membrane on the concrete and repaving the surface — is done.
The expectation is for the deck rehabilitation to begin in July, but Scott said once the bid is awarded, the expansion joints will have to be fabricated and if steel fabricators are busy, they may not be able to fit the work into their schedule this year. If that is the case, the project will be done in 2016.
The steel bridge was constructed in 1930 and completely rehabilitated in 1992 after the state bought it. Tolls were collected until 2001. About 4,000 cars a day use the bridge.
— Patrick O’Grady
Put a toll booth on our side of the bridge.
ReplyDeleteThat way Springfield can earn some cash and create jobs to.
Make em pay to come to beautiful Springfield.
There is no "our side" of the bridge. It belongs to New Hampshire, as does the river below it, and NH is paying for repairs. So put a cork in it loudmouth before they start asking us to pony up.
Delete6:25, I think your cork is in the wrong end, which may explain your testiness here!
DeleteOnce Mr, Martone becomes a selectman he can oversee the "congestion management" associated with this project, since he held similarly nebulous responsibilities on the left coast.
ReplyDeleteConsidering this is NH project and Springfield has no say so maybe you should keep your nasty comments to yourself. Hey at least Mr. Martone is willing to step up and try to improve things in this town. Maybe you should have run if you think you could do a better job. Put up or shut up!
ReplyDeleteA lot of us "put up" an exorbitant amount of tax dollars every year to enable the town to "improve things", so we're just as entitled to comment here as the next do-gooder windbag running for office. Dang that First Amendment, doesn't it just gnaw away at you???
Delete2:51, you fail to understand the simple fact that no one in Springfield is liable for this cost. So why are you grumbling about it?
DeleteYour tax dollars have nothing to do with your ability to comment here.
DeleteSorry my mistake. I know who owns what. I meant to say on the NH side. So you could donkey up to the booth and pay your nickle.
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