Downtown Huntington bridge to close soon for cleaning/painting project

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – We’ve a site visitors alert to go alongside to drivers who use the downtown Huntington bridge into Chesapeake, Ohio.

The West Virginia Division of Transportation stated Tuesday that the Sixth Road bridge, often known as the Robert C. Byrd Bridge, will fully near site visitors beginning this Monday, March 27.

In line with the WVDOT, that’s so crews can “fully clear and paint the bridge.” The complete mission is predicted to be accomplished by this November.

For the previous couple of weeks in the course of the early phases of the mission, site visitors has been down to 1 lane in each instructions over the bridge.

“The Robert C. Byrd Bridge is one in all our main freeway constructions that spans the Ohio River and offers an necessary native hyperlink to the Metropolis of Huntington in addition to a regional connection between the states of Ohio and West Virginia,” stated West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) District 2 Engineer Rob Pennington, P.E., within the launch “Fully closing the bridge in the course of the mission will enable the mission to be accomplished faster, extra effectively and extra safely for the touring public.”

Drivers might be pressured to make use of both the West Huntington Bridge, situated about 2 miles west of the Sixth Road Bridge, or the East Huntington Bridge at thirty first Road. DOT officers say detour routes might be effectively marked.

In line with the WVDOT launch, “KMX Portray Inc. was awarded a contract for practically $10.3 million in December 2022 to fully clear and repaint the bridge approaches, major spans, and help piers.”

Inbuilt 1994, the Sixth Road Bridge carries state Route 527 throughout the Ohio River.

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