State Road 46 bridge work starts soon

BROWN COUNTY — The Indiana Department of Transportation will restrict traffic on State Road 46 west of Columbus to a single lane on the bridge over the north fork of Salt Creek next Thursday.

Temporary signals will be placed Monday at either end of the three-span, 153-foot-long structure to regulate one-direction-at-a-time traffic.

The $1.1 million Salt Creek bridge rehabilitation project will use Ragle Inc. of Newburgh as the state’s contractor.

INDOT also will close the westbound shoulder of State Road 46 at Gnaw Bone, where a culvert will be repaired and pavement will be patched. Later, the eastbound shoulder will be closed there for repairs.

After Memorial Day, the contractor will remove and replace a single-span structure next to State Road 46 at Bond Cemetery Road/Shipley Hollow Road. Temporary signals will regulate single-lane, one-direction-at-a-time traffic.