Work starts on Birmingham's Baldwin Bridge

Monday, August 3, 2009 | Source: metromode
Work is about to begin on the replacement of the Baldwin Avenue Bridge in Birmingham.

City officials plan to close it down for construction on Aug. 3 and work is expected to wrap up by November. Birmingham is gearing up to do a lot of work on its bridges this summer, including improvements to the West Maple Road, Oak Street and Lakeside Drive North bridges. The biggest project is the $700,000 replacement of the Baldwin Bridge.

It dates back to the 1920s and has been showing decades' worth of wear and tear for a while now. Gone will be the narrow, one-lane bridge, replaced by a two-lane span with a 5-foot-wide sidewalk. The city plans to recreate the historic arch underneath with a stone-cut façade. It has done this with four other bridge replacements.

Source: City of Birmingham
Writer: Jon Zemke
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