CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Division of Highways is reviewing bids for three bridge replacement projects and hopes to award the contracts for those projects soon.
A bid letting was held last week.
Replacement of the Coalwood Bridge in McDowell County will be paid for with funding from Gov. Jim Justice’s $2.8 billion Roads to Prosperity program.
The funding will also cover work on the Coalwood Bridge is only about 25 feet long, but carries about 1,500 vehicles a day on WV 16 across Perry Camp Branch. Closing the bridge would create a 34-mile detour for drivers.
The DOH is also accepted bids to replace the Caney Branch Bridge in Mingo County. The bridge currently carries a three-ton weight restriction, and would leave local residents stranded if not replaced.
The Burnsville T-Beam Bridge in Braxton County project also has bids out for review.
The three bridges are among 25 projects included in the bid letting.
The following projects include:
- Elk Street, Chapel Road and additional ADA ramp projects. (Braxton County)
- Burnsville T-Beam Bridge replacement (Braxton County)
- First Avenue, Nitro traffic signals. (Kanawha and Putnam counties)
- Buffalo Hills to Franklin paving. (Pendleton County)
- Coalwood Bridge replacement. (McDowell County)
- Grant County to Skyline resurfacing. (Mineral County)
- St. Albans Streetscape. (Kanawha County)
- Hickman Run Road to Greenwood Road paving. (Tyler County)
- Dunns to Flat Top Road paving. (Mercer County)
- Buffalo Creek to Shoals paving. (Wayne County)
- Wellsburg traffic signals. (Brooke County)
- Pleasant Street streetscape. (Monongalia County)
- Mountwood Park ATV trail. (Wood County)
- Shinnston downtown sidewalks. (Harrison County)
- Thomas to Pierce paving. (Tucker County)
- Brushy Fork Road traffic signal. (Upshur County)
- Lester to Sophia paving. (Raleigh County)
- Itmann to Mullens paving. (Wyoming County)
- Patteson Drive Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon. (Monongalia County)
- Big Wheeling Creek paving. (Marshall County)
- Caney Branch Bridge replacement. (Mingo County)
- District 4 guardrail replacements.
- I-70 mining maintenance. (Ohio County)
- Green Bottom to Mason County line paving. (Cabell County)
- District 2 guardrail replacements.