Nathan Clark reports that the Carlton Road Bridge in Mercer County, PA has been closed due to deck deterioration and is planned to be replaced in 2014. The 1898 bridge just visited during the Second Annual Historic Bridge Weekend.
See below for the press release:
Oil City -- Carlton Road Bridge, which carries State Route 1015 over French Creek, in French Creek Twp., will be closed immediately due to extensive deterioration to the steel deck. The truss bridge, built in 1898, had previously been posted at eight tons.
Motorists headed north or east may detour west onto Sunol Road (S.R. 1028), then proceed north on PA 173 and onto US 322. For motorists headed south or west, follow US 322 north to PA 173 south and onto Sunol Road (S.R. 1028).
The Carlton Road Bridge is scheduled to be replaced in 2014. The preliminary design work on the project has already started.
For those of us that live here in the small village of Carlton we are not happy about this news. We want to know why the Utica Bridge was redone and the Carlton Bridge was not. Even though it is a higher traffic area? Could it be due to the fact a politician lives on the other side of the Utica Bridge???? Seems fare enough for them.
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