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Waynesboro: Movement on Florence Avenue bridge?

Chris Graham

WaynesboroGood news, no, great news, in Waynesboro: something is finally going to be done about the Florence Avenue bridge.

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

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Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to Substack or his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

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