Bridge Demolition in Kingston to Start in November

The Greenkill Avenue bridge in midtown Kingston which runs right above Broadway will begin demolition and the replacement project in mid November.

According to the Daily Freeman, the Greenkill bridge was built back in 1952 and is used by about 4,000 vehicles per day. The bridge is being replaced due to deterioration that is to serious to repair.

City Engineer Ralph Swenson told the Freeman,

by the end of the year, the bridge should be gone.

Swenson also said that the demolition will start with the removal of steel from the bridge, and that the work will take a couple of days. The work will be done at night and will require closing a piece of Broadway while the removal is done.

The city of Kingston has announced that when the project begins they are asking drivers to follow one of the preferred detours. Drivers heading east on Greenkill Avenue are asked to use one of the four available left turns that will take them to Cedar Street after one block. If you take Cedar Street east it will lead drivers to Broadway, and Cedar St then becomes Cornell Street on the other side of Broadway.

The entire bridge project, including construction of the new bridge, should take about a full year to complete.