MILLSTONE – Perrineville Road was officially reopened to vehicular traffic today with a dedication by the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
The bridge had been closed to all vehicles traffic since July, although the county did erect a temporary span to allow for pedestrians to cross.

 

“Not only is this a beautiful new bridge, but Perrineville Road itself was widened to make the approaches safer,” Freeholder Director Barbara J. McMorrow said. “I would like to thank residents for making the sacrifice with the detour, and I hope they feel the inconvenience was worth it.”

The new bridge over Rocky Brook replaces one that was structurally deficient and functionally obsolete, and it includes the widening of about 600 feet of Perrineville Road.

 

“The county has a very progressive bridge replacement program to ensure that all of our bridges are maintained and in good working order,” Freeholder Lillian G. Burry said. “The county owns more than 900 bridges, both big and small. Our county engineers do a great job of identifying the ones that need work and often are able to do some of it in-house at a great savings for taxpayers.”

 

Work entailed removing an existing two-span timber bridge and building a new, single-span bridge with reinforced concrete wing walls and pre-cast, three-sided frame supported on timber piles with scour protection and reinforced concrete parapets with textured form liner and cap.

The new bridge will carry two, 12- foot lanes of traffic with 7-foot shoulders and includes a 6-foot-wide sidewalk on both the north and south sides of the bridge.

 

“On behalf of the residents of Millstone, I want to thank the county for not only upgrading a bridge that was in need and widening the roadway, but for providing pedestrian access to residents during the construction,” Mayor Nancy A. Grbelja said. “It is a job well done.”

 

The project was designed by T&M Associates of Middletown with direction and inspection from the Monmouth County Department of Public Works and Engineering. The project was built by Lucas Brothers Inc. of Marlboro at a state-funded cost of $1.25 million.

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Photo Caption from left: Millstone Mayor Nancy Grbelja, Freeholder Lillian G. Burry, Freeholder Director Barbara J. McMorow, Director of Public Works and Engineering John W. Tobia, County Engineer Joseph Ettore, Superintendent of Bridges Keith Duncan, and Daniel Lucas of Lucas Brothers Construction.