West Front Street Bridge Will Close On January 5th
photo via visitmonmouth.com
The West Front Street Bridge (S-17) that connects Red Bank and Middletown will close to vehicular traffic on or about Monday, January 5, 2015 and remained closed through Sunday May 17, according to a statement from the Monmouth County Department of Public Information and Tourism.
Also known as Hubbard’s Bridge, the structure which was built in 1921 is being replaced with a modern bridge that will compliment the look an function of the nearby Coopers Bridge which connects Red Bank and Middletown on Route 35. The project started in August of 2013 while keeping the bridge open to cars and trucks. The closure announced today signals that the 16 month project is entering its final phase.
Pedestrians will continue to be allowed to use the bridge during this period and bicyclists will be allowed to walk their bikes over the structure.
“We are moving into the home stretch with the West Front Street Bridge replacement project and it is on schedule to open before Memorial Day weekend,” said Freeholder Thomas A. Arnone, liaison to the Department of Public Works and Engineering. “To connect the new bridge to the Middletown and Red Bank shorelines, we must close the current bridge to vehicles and begin the last big phase of construction.”
Drivers should plan an alternate travel route until the project is completed and the new West Front Street Bridge is opened to traffic in mid-May.
Detours will be posted. Westbound traffic from West Front Street in Red Bank will be directed north on Rector Place to State Hwy 35 and across Coopers Bridge and then onto Navesink River Road to Hubbard Avenue. Eastbound traffic from West Front Street in Middletown will be directed north on Hubbard Avenue to Navesink River Road to State Hwy 35 and across Coopers Bridge to Rector Place.
“Motorists should expect travel delays in the area while this work is completed,” said Arnone.
The new bridge will be 480-feet long and 44-feet wide. There will be two 12-foot travel lanes for motor vehicles and four-foot shoulders and six-foot sidewalks in both directions. The new bridge will provide approximately nine feet of vertical clearance above mean high water elevation; there will be approximately 72 feet of horizontal clearance within the navigable channel of the Swimming River.
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Holy cow.
That’s a favorite route I use during spring yard sale runs. I guess I gotta find a new route
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It would be nice for those of us who live in the area of Chris’s Deli if all of the traffic would just be diverted to Rt. 520/Newman Springs Rd., leaving the other roads for local use. There’s nothing worse than speeders cutting through the neighborhoods, hoping to avoid the long lines of traffic caused by these road closures.