
The city is working with VDOT to find extra money to be able to get construction started by November, staff told city council members Monday night.
Which, yay.
And: about damn time.
Assuming everything goes well, construction would take six months, so the target for completion would be May 2020.
Coincidentally, ahem, there’s a city council election in May 2020.
Funny how things work to that end.
The bridge has been closed since 2016, snarling traffic for a wide area of city neighborhoods, none of which, and we’ll use the word coincidentally here, are located near a country club.
I get in trouble when I say and write things like that, but, bloody hell, it’s true.
Story by Chris Graham