A project to bypass the Seventh Street bridge at City Park and rehabilitate a truss bridge on Rosenfield Street will begin in the next few days and should be completed by early December.
Representatives of contractor Gilvin Terrill and the Texas Department of Transportation held a preconstruction meeting Friday to discuss logistics and timetables for the $553,000 project
The Warren truss bridge on Rosenfield will be disassembled and completely rehabilitated, and the street will be closed during the time of the project.
Seventh Street at the City Park has been closed since late 2008 after TxDOT officials declared the 1908 pony truss bridge at that location to be unsafe. Due to its historic nature, the old bridge will be left in place, and a new concrete box culvert crossing will be placed immediately to the south of the existing structure.
The new crossing will necessitate shifting the roadway in that area and the relocation of some equipment in the Tot Park.
A two-foot tall steel rail will run the length of the Tot Park to keep children from running into the street, and Seventh Street itself will be repaved from the Kearney Street intersection to near the old school building.
The Seventh Street crossing will be have a 32-foot roadway to accommodate two lanes of traffic. The old truss bridge is only wide enough for one vehicle.
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