Cypress Creek Bridge reopens early to westbound traffic
Published 5:39 pm Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- The Cypress Creek Bridge is restricted to one-way traffic headed into downtown Smithfield for the duration of VDOT's nearly two-year rehabilitation project, save for a series of multi-day full closures that to date have occurred four months apart. (File photo)
The second multi-day shutdown of the Cypress Creek Bridge, like the first in April, has ended ahead of schedule.
The Virginia Department of Transportation had, a week in advance, announced a planned Aug. 19-23 closure from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. of both lanes of the circa-1975 bridge that connects downtown Smithfield with the east end of town.
The bridge reopened the afternoon of Aug. 20 to one-way westbound traffic into downtown.
The planned five-day closure, which finished 3 days early, entailed placing newly fabricated bridge beams in their place. The previous multi-day closure, which ended on April 9 a full 3½ days early, had involved the removal of the old bridge beams.
The one-way westbound restriction will remain in place for the duration of the estimated two-year bridge rehabilitation timeline.
There are two additional planned multi-day closures, which to date have been occurring roughly four months apart.
