Once the inspection was finished bridge engineers from the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Culpeper District analyzed the findings to determine the safe load capacity. They are now reviewing options to repair the bridge with the aim of restoring the previous eight-ton posted limit. It’s estimated that the repairs will take three to five months to complete.

The one-lane, steel truss, timber deck bridge, located between Route 29 and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, carries traffic over the North Fork Rivanna River. It was built in 1924.

Highway safety is everyone’s responsibility. Virginia’s highway safety partnership — the Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and Virginia State Police — challenges you to help prevent highway fatalities. Buckle up. Avoid distractions. Share the road. Drive drug- and alcohol-free. Obey speed limits.  For more information on the Highway Safety Challenge and things you can do to avoid becoming Virginia’s next traffic fatality, visit www.safeVAhighways.org.

(END)

Information in VDOT news releases was accurate at the time the release was published. For the most current information about projects or programs, please visit the project or program Web pages. You may find those by searching by keyword in the search Virginia DOT box above.