PLYMOUTH — During their meeting on Monday, the Marshall County Commissioners heard a report from Laurie Johnson of DLZ on the Indiana Department of Transportation reclassifying a bridge project.
The Center Street Bridge in Bremen was set for replacement in the coming year, but Johnson said that INDOT had reclassified the bridge from “non-select” to “select,” which meant the structure would be a rehab project instead of a reconstruction. The reclassification also involved extending the timeline for work into the next fiscal year.
Johnson said that the reclassification would also involve a redesign of the project and that DLZ was awaiting a memo from INDOT that would explain why the classification was changed. She said that DLZ was “disappointed” at the INDOT decision from an engineering standpoint.
While the project will now be rehab instead of replacement, it will not involve savings for the county if for no other reason than the project was pushed back, and construction costs will inevitably rise the longer the project is on hold.
