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

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north and 50 foot to the south.
And this is the actual proposed network arch that
we looked at as a schematic model at the time. That
gives you the Whittier crossing, today's version, and
the preferred crossing alternative, what it will look
like. One of the things that became important with
the Whittier Bridge was dealing with a Section 106
historic coordination effort throughout the documents.
We coordinated with the historic commissions with the
three towns as well as the state.
And there were certain things about the existing
bridges that people had grown to appreciate. One of
them was the historic great seals of the state on the
(inaudible) beams, which is why in our model view we
actually are going to take those and have the
contractor when they build, to take them down,
refurbish them and reinstall them on the new bridges.
There are other old artifacts like what's known as a
builder's plaque. This actually has information of
the engineers and contractors involved with the
project. There's actually two of them and they will
be placed along the project. Some of them will be
placed along the shared use path so people will be
able to see those and get to them where today they
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