Bridges open in time for Memorial Day Holiday
Opening ceremonies Friday at Sunset Ave and Main St. bridges
The two bridges crossing Deal Lake, shuttered this year for replacement and repair, will officially open Friday morning, in time for the holiday weekend traffic, Mayor John Moor said during Monday night’s City Council Workshop.
“Main Street and Sunset Avenue are both major roads that lead in and out of Asbury Park. Not only are those roads and the bridges on them open again to accommodate residents and visitors, they’re stronger, safer, and better,” Moor said in a written news release.
A reopening ceremony for the Main Street Bridge that connects Loch Arbour and Interlaken will commence at exactly 8 a.m. Friday, followed by the 8:30 a.m. reopening of the Sunset Avenue Bridge, which connects Asbury Park with the Wanamassa section of Ocean Township. Both projects were completed under Monmouth County’s purview.
Moor said he will make Sunset Landing Luncheonette owner Donna Logdon Mayor for the Day, since her eatery lost patronage during the bridge closures. She will join Moor and the City Council in cutting the ribbon on the Sunset Avenue Bridge. Logden’s eatery is a family-owned restaurant established in 1957.
“Many businesses on both sides of the bridge were impacted by the closure, but Donna was 50 feet away from the shutdown for over 400 days. She was impacted most severely, but she’s still there, Sunset Landing made it through,” Moor said.Traffic was detoured away from Sunset Avenue, where Logdon restaurant is located, to Fourth Avenue during the 1½-long Sunset Avenue Bridge closure.
The new four-span bridge with, one lane of travel in each direction, boasts wider shoulders and sidewalks, and a realignment with the roadway. The triangular curb between Bridge Avenue and Sunset Avenue was removed. The construction cost was estimated at $10 million.
Work to replace the Loch Arbour and Interlaken Main Street Bridge included paving roadways in Neptune, Asbury Park, Loch signaled intersections; ADA compliance at Arbour and Allenhurst; upgrade of was done for an estimate $4.3 million construction cost.
[Feature photo courtesy of Laura Petrovich-Cheney.]
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