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In Windham County, Vt., construction crews are making significant progress on the $44 million Rockingham Bridge 24N and 24S project, which will replace the existing bridges with two new structures. The current bridges were constructed in the early 1960s and rehabilitated in 1988. “The existing bridge decks are very poor and would have needed replacement in the near future,” said Douglas Bonneau, project manager of Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). “They are in need of concrete deck replacements, new coating systems and have substandard bridge railing. In addition, the bridges are narrow and do Vermont Agency of Transportation photo not have the structural capacity to carry widened Reed & Reed Inc. of Woolwich, Maine, serves as the general contractor for the projbridge decks with modern ect, which is 90 percent federally funded, with the state making up the difference. bridge railing, which is heavier than the existing bridge railing. Also, the existing bound bridge began.” Casting the pre-stressed bulb girders began in September, deck truss bridges are fracture critical, meaning the design of the bridges do not include the redundancy of structural ele- with all pieces needed for the northbound bridge superstrucments such that there would be multiple load paths should ture to be completed by May 2018. Meanwhile, the three piers and two abutments needed for the new northbound one element like a gusset plate fail.” Bonneau noted that the work is being performed in phas- bridge will be constructed as soon as the demolition work is complete. Traffic is planned to be on the new northbound es, with set timelines. “Being four-span, 800-foot bridges that pass high over the bridge by the fall of 2018. Both directions of travel will then Green Mountain Railroad and Williams River, construction be put onto the new northbound bridge, and the process will of a temporary bridge to maintain two lanes of traffic in each be repeated for the southbound bridge. Southbound bridge direction would have been cost prohibitive. The traffic vol- completion is scheduled for the fall of 2019, with project umes in this portion of I-91 are low enough to allow a reduc- cleanup and completion by mid-summer 2020.” Golden Hill Road activities include continued truck traffic tion to one lane in each direction through the project site. The crossover putting traffic onto the southbound bridge was put delivering bridge material and equipment, along with into service at the end of July, and demolition on the northsee ROCKINGHAM page 4