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Laurel: To exceeding expectations. Remember last week when we gave a lance to the crash on the Tarentum Bridge? The one that happened right there in the middle of the construction project that was already complicating everyone’s commuting? It was going to delay reopening of the bridge amid the $3.24 million rehabilitation project even longer?
Yeah? Well, it didn’t.
Despite projections that equipment damaged in the crash was going to keep the New Kensington-
to-Tarentum traffic finding alternate routes beyond the June 27 reopening date, contractor J.F. Shea Construction was able to pull out a miracle and not just get the job done on time, but actually a little early. Traffic was flowing again just after noon on Sunday, a half-day ahead of the original schedule. It was also well ahead of the 6 a.m. Monday reopening scheduled after the June 19 crash.