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Drawbridge in coastal Mississippi set to reopen this week May 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — A drawbridge in coastal Mississippi is set to reopen this week following a two-month closure for repairs. The Fort Bayou Bridge on Hwy. 609 through Ocean Springs will be operational again on Thursday, the state Department of Transportation announced in a statement. All four lanes of the bridge were first closed in early March for a $20 million repair project to rehabilitate and upgrade the structure, the agency said. During the nine-week closure, crews worked to replace th...

The Mississippi Department of Transportation said this week work on the Ft. Bayou Bridge remains on schedule for the bridge to reopen to traffic, one lane each way, on May 21.

Ft. Bayou Bridge now expected to remain closed until late May Updated Apr 09, 12:50 PM; Posted Apr 09, 12:50 PM Facebook Share OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- The Ft. Bayou Bridge, which closed to traffic March 14 and was expected to reopen by late April at the end of a $20 million repair project, will instead remain closed at least until late May after engineers determined the damage to the 30-year-old bridge is more extensive than originally believed. “The damage was much worse than we had anticipated,” said Project Engineer Jason Winders of the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT)...

Fort Bayou drawbridge closure extended until late May Work to repair the Fort Bayou drawbridge in Ocean Springs is taking longer than expected. That means the bridge will likely remain closed until late May. By WLOX Staff | April 9, 2021 at 10:58 AM CDT - Updated April 9 at 11:32 AM OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Work to repair the Fort Bayou drawbridge in Ocean Springs is taking longer than expected. That means the bridge will likely remain closed until late May. “The damage was much worse than we had anticipated. We could not determine the extent until we actually removed the parts...