Engineers Plan $5.8M Fix For WL Road
7/14/2010
JOURNAL & COURIER - Curt Slyder
If all goes as planned, a long-discussed Lindberg Road bridge over the Celery Bog in West Lafayette could be a reality by August 2011. That's a lot earlier than West Lafayette officials had originally planned. And it doesn't come a moment too soon for traffic planners and drivers on a road that continues to settle into the marsh. "It's to the point where if it's any worse, it's going to be considered unsafe," said Dave Buck, West Lafayette's city engineer. That, he said, would necessitate a temporary fix or potentially closing a portion of the road where asphalt gets wavier by the month. The West Lafayette Redevelopment Commission on Tuesday agreed to transfer $560,000 from a local tax increment financing district to Tippecanoe County to pay for design work on the planned $5.8 million bridge. Tuesday's meeting also marked the first public unveiling of the bridge's proposed design. Link
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