Final Environmental Impact Report - Whittier Bridge/I-95 ...

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off in this direction is Pile Hill coming over 95.
The existing bridge -- the original bridge was built
where we're going to put the new bridge back. So when
it was originally built in the fifties and actually
rebuilt again in the seventies, this corridor has
remained as the bridge has gone back and forth, and
what we're going to do is for the existing bridge,
we're going to operate that with one-way traffic, do a
partial demolition one way with the traffic signals
and then we'll build the whole new bridge snugged up
into that radius and really put the bridge back where
it was in the seventies as we build the new bridge.
The new bridge will have sidewalks on it like it
does today, but also be five-foot wider on each side
to allow for a bike lane for future tie-in to other
projects that may be coming into the city. There was
a long-term desire for us to do that and that's what's
being done.
Up in the Salisbury Amesbury area, these are the
bridges that are being widened. They fall in line
with the decision to widen the highway from this point
on as an interior widening while the other widening is
really being accomplished on the eastern edge of the
right of way when holding the existing western edge of
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