The $1.2 million bridge connects Pickering Square with Hancock Street by crossing the Kenduskeag Stream. Author: Bob Evans (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 4:00 PM EDT April 8, 2021 Updated: 5:46 PM EDT April 8, 2021
BANGOR, Maine Several large sections of Bangor’s pedestrian bridge arrived and were lifted into place Thursday.
Pete Tuell, the senior project manager with Haley Ward said all five of the nearly 80-foot pre-engineered steel replacement structures should be in place by Saturday.
A study in 2016 determined the old Willard C. Orr footbridge had reached its life expectancy and needed to be replaced.
The $1.2 million bridge connects Pickering Square with Hancock Street by crossing the Kenduskeag Stream.