Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposed transportation project list for "Virginia’s Road to the Future" includes some funds for several Gloucester County improvements.
The 2013 funding proposal includes $735,963 for the replacement of the bridge on Route 662 (Allmondsville Road) over Fox Creek and $728,460 for unpaved road improvements.
Kelly Hannon, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Transportation, said Tuesday that the Fox Creek Bridge would require a total of $1.6 million as currently proposed. The bridge replacement is in the design phase, she said, with right-of-way acquisition and construction to follow. The proposed timeline is for bridge construction to begin in 2017 and be completed in 2018.
The 75-year-old bridge is "structurally deficient and functionally obsolete," Hannon said. The two-lane bridge has a timber deck and steel beams, Hannon said, and is 93 feet long and 20 feet wide.
A VDOT traffic count showed 270 vehicles a day used the bridge in 2009, ...
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