Thursday March 28th, 2024 6:01AM

Daytime closures to affect motorists on Highway 53's Bolling Bridge today

By AccessWDUN Staff

To date, the Georgia Department of Transportation has done most of the work on the State Route 53 Bolling Bridge replacement during the overnight hours. On Tuesday, June 13, however, crews will work during the daytime, which will impact travel for motorists. 

Single lane closures are scheduled for Tuesday, June 13 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as GDOT continues to build the bridge's substructure.

Traffic will be reduced to one lane between Dogwood Trail and Little Hall Park.

GDOT spokeswoman Katie Strickland said there will also be single lane traffic during the overnight hours this Thursday, June 15. The hours for that work are 7 p.m. Thursday until 6 a.m. Friday. 
          
"This work will be done weather-permitting, and drivers are reminded to slow down when approaching the work zone and drive alert while traveling through it," Strickland wrote in an email. "Please plan ahead as will create delays."

MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT:
The Bolling Bridge replacement project consists of .793 miles of construction for widening and realignment of State Route 53 beginning at Dogwood Path and extending east of the Chestatee River just before Little Hall Park, including construction of the bridge and approaches over the Chestatee (Lake Lanier).

This project was awarded to Scott Bridge Company of Opelika, AL in March of 2016 and has a current completion date of March of 2019. The $19.7 million project is 22 percent complete and will build a new bridge beside the current one. Once the construction of the new structure is complete traffic will be moved to it, and the former bridge built in 1956 will be destroyed. 

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