Garrison Bridge News Today

Road closures are taking place in Lafayette while Duke Energy trucks are working in two locations.

The nearly $8 million project will rehabilitate the bridge deck to an all-new surface, much like the Interstate 540 bridge.

Construction on the Garrison bridge is requiring lane closures until this winter causing traffic to be impacted especially during rush hours.

FORT SMITH -- Traffic conditions on Garrison Bridge have returned to normal, after police and other first-responders launched rescue efforts for an individual who jumped from the bridge Saturday morning.

FORT SMITH -- Traffic conditions on Garrison Bridge have returned to normal, after police and other first-responders launched rescue efforts for an individual who jumped from the bridge Saturday morning.

According to historians, residents would take a railway bridge to travel from Fort Smith to Oklahoma. The only issue was the toll charged to take the passage.

Times Record Estimated costs of constructing the I-49 bridge and a possible bridge to reroute traffic away from downtown Fort Smith arent cheap, but one state official says theres a lot to be considered in the projections. Halff Associates estimated the cost of constructing a bridge in eastern Oklahoma to reroute trucks off of Garrison Avenue would be $225 million. Its less than the estimated cost of the I-49 bridge to connect Chaffee Crossing to Alma, which Arkansas Department of Transporta...