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Motorists will get a break this week when bridges on the Mitchell Expressway and Cushman Street reopen. But next week, the state Department of Transportation will begin work on this summer’s biggest Fairbanks-area road project the reconstruction of a major intersection on the city’s east side.
A committee that will help study Kinross Gold’s controversial plan to haul ore from a gold mine in Tetlin to the mill near Fairbanks met for the first time Monday. The diverse panel formed by the state Department of Transportation will represent the concerns and interests of communities and agencies along the 240-mile route.
The state Department of Transportation temporarily closed the Mitchell Expressway bridge on the city’s east side over the weekend night, along with a stretch of South Cushman Street, so contractors can repair the structure that was damaged last winter by an oversize load colliding with the structure.
State Department of Transportation officials say it’ll cost more than a million dollars to fix the Mitchell Expressway bridge that was damaged in December when it was struck by a piece of heavy equipment. And they hope to hire a contractor for the project soon.