Dickenson County:
“Tucked away in a valley high above Grassy Creek in
Dickenson County, the region’s first cantilever bridges are taking shape, foot
by balanced foot. When they are completed, the twin bridges, both 265 feet
above the ground and 1,728 feet long, will be the highest in the state, and
will help bring four lanes of roadway all the way from Virginia Beach into
Kentucky.
The bridges, concrete giants stretching into the sky, will
represent half of the U.S. 460 Connector, also called Corridor Q. Kentucky is
continuing to work on its side of the road, too, so that the two projects are
in sight of one another. The project — one of two construction projects that
state officials say are needed to break the isolation of the coalfields region
of Southwest Virginia and opponents say are just mining in disguise that will
bypass local communities — is moving along in Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise
counties.”
~Writes Allie Robinson Gibson of the Bristol Herald Courier
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