The Indiana Department of Transportation’s contractor for replacing two bridges on State Road 56 in Craig Township here in Switzerland County has placed construction signs in advance of operations — scheduled to begin in mid-September at the Tucker Run structure located six miles west of State Road 129.
Milestone, INDOT’s contractor for the $3,695,455 project near Lamb, plans to clear the State Road 56 Tucker Run site during the second week of September. Once cleared, temporary signals will be installed before actual construction — replacing one-half the bridge at a time — starts on or after October 1st.
The new State Road 56 Tucker Run bridge will be a 3-span concrete bulb-T structure measuring 200 feet in length with almost 33 feet of clear roadway side-to-side.
A second State Road 56 bridge located less than a mile west of the Tucker Run structure will be removed and replaced after the first of the year. The State Road 56 Green Valley Creek bridge is a single-span I-beam structure measuring 68 feet in length and 30 feet side-to-side. Clearing should begin this October, followed by utility relocations. Actual construction activities are slated to start in January.