State to pay $2 million of Kettering bridge cost

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Kettering
By Bennett Leckrone
July 6, 2018
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A Kettering bridge has been approved for grant money totalling 95 percent of the construction cost to replace it, city officials say.

The Ohio Department of Transportation will pay up to $2 million in construction cost to replace the Ridgeway Road Bridge for all modes of traffic, including vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.

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The total estimated cost to replace the bridge, including engineering design and right-of-way costs, is $2,600,000.

The city began pursuing grant funding for the reconstruction of the bridge for all modes of traffic in late 2017. More than 70 percent of respondents to a survey about the bridge indicated that they wanted the bridge replaced for all modes of traffic.

Other survey options included replacing the bridge for only cyclists and pedestrians and removing the bridge without replacing it.

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A total of $10.3 million was awarded by ODOT to 14 projects across the state in this year’s round of applications for the Municipal Bridge Program, according to the release.

Construction on the new bridge will begin in late 2020 or early 2021, according to the release, when the ODOT funding will become available. The city plans to continue seeking more grant funding in addition to the ODOT grant.

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