Multi-million dollar project will bypass S Curves; keep traffic flowing to Hatteras Island.
The 2.4 mile ‘jug handle” bridge north of Rodanthe has had a couple of hitches but it seems to be making good progress to a summer 2021 opening date. Kip Tabb writing for the Coastal Review Online has the story.
“A project the size of the “jug-handle” bridge north of Rodanthe is like some intricate dance routine carried out with mammoth custom-built gantry cranes, massive 155-foot pilings and teams of workers each with their own tasks.
“The whole system is one big train. You only move as fast as your slowest part of the train,” said Adrian Price, project manager with Flatiron Construction Corp., the Broomfield, Colorado-based contractor for the project.”
To read the complete story in the Coastal Review Online, click here.