Bridge work over Route 11 will wrap up next week

AUSTINTOWN — Work that caused Mahoning Avenue motorists to shift lanes and wait as construction crews worked to redeck the bridge over state Route 11 is nearly done.

“The completion date is Nov. 2,” said Justin Chesnic, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation’s District 4 which includes Mahoning County.

It’s the last bridge to be completed in the $7 million project — with a $5.7 million construction price tag — to redeck and paint the bridges over Route 11 at Mahoning and Western Reserve, Kirk and New roads. Work started in spring 2008.

“We did the other three bridges last year and then painted those while we were working on Mahoning,” Chesnic said.

All that’s left this week is striping, waterline and touch-up work.

A.P. O’Horo Co. of Youngstown was the contractor. The Mahoning bridge project included adding left-turn lanes to access Route 11 north and south.

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