The fate of a 104-year-old bridge near City Park will not be decided until later this year, according to information presented Monday night, April 16, in Childress.
The Seventh Street bridge was closed by the state in December 2008, and both bridges are scheduled to be replaced under a TxDOT program next year.
TxDOT says it will hold public hearings later this year to determine what local citizens would like done with the bridge at the park. One option that has been discussed is relocating the bridge for use as a pedestrian bridge.
TxDOT says replacement of the Seventh Street bridge will cost $250,000, not including any work to repurpose the existing bridge, and replacing the Rosenfield Street bridge will cost $230,000.
Other transportation projects planned in Donley County this year include overlaying Hwy. 70 from Howardwick to Interstate 40 and reconditioning some of the driving lanes on US 287 in Clarendon.
TxDOT will also let a contract for overlaying the southbound lanes of US 287 from the Armstrong County line to the west city limits of Clarendon next spring.
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