N H and Vt officials continue Ledyard Bridge renovations thedartmouth.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedartmouth.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THETFORD Upper Valley residents are facing the 18-month closure of the Lyme-East Thetford bridge that connects their towns, and tensions ran high at a meeting hosted by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation on Monday to address the.
Listservs have been abuzz, an ad-hoc group has been formed, and a letter circulating between the two communities to call for halting the closure has garnered more than 500 signatures. But the state of New Hampshire already has the $11 million project under contract.
LYME The good news is that after a first round of bidding failed to attract any contractors willing to take on the Lyme-East Thetford Bridge refurbishment project, a second round of bidding in May elicited three bids, with the New Hampshire.
LYME Coats of rust, washed-out concrete and spreading cracks earned the Lyme-East Thetford Bridge a place on New Hampshire’s “red list” of bridges in disrepair in 2013. Now, needed repairs will wait until at least a decade after that urgent.