The Missouri Department of Transportation celebrated the opening of the bridge on Route M at Lick Fork Creek with a ribbon cutting on Sept. 26.
The bridge is located approximately six miles east of Hwy. 13 in Daviess county. Route M was closed for several weeks for the bridge replacement project. Pictured from left to right are Dave Lare with KTU Constructors (design-build contract), Pat Bartley and Allison Quinn, Phillips Grading and Construction; David Cox and Randy Sims and Carl Carder, Daviess county commissioners; Tonya Lohman, area engineer for MoDOT and Troy Slagle, northwest regional field engineer for MoDOT’s Bridge Improvement Project. The bridge is being done as part of the Missouri Safe & Sound Bridge Improvement Program which will improve 802 of Missouri’s bridges by the end of 2013. In Daviess county, 15 bridges will be replaced or rehabilitated. [Staff Photo/TLH]
