Lane restriction scheduled for Eggners Ferry Bridge

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet plans to restrict traffic to one lane on the US 68/KY 80 Eggners Ferry Bridge during daylight hours starting Wednesday, March 19, according to Keith Todd, Public Information officer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's District One and Two.

The lane restriction is to allow concrete patching on the bridge deck.

The US 68/KY 80 Eggners Ferry Bridge is at US 68 Marshall County mile point 28.146 and Trigg County mile point 0.0 at the western entrance to Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area.

Todd said the KYTC District 1 Bridge Crew will be using high strength concrete to patch the deck driving surface. Due to the time required for concrete to cure by the end of the day, the work is expected to take about a week to complete.

Motorists should be prepared to encounter one lane traffic with alternating flow controlled by flaggers from about 8 a.m. to about 5 p.m., CDT, each weekday, whenever weather allows. Motorists be alert for slowing and stopped traffic on the bridge approaches. Appropriate caution is required where equipment, flaggers, and mainteance personnel are on the bridge deck in close proximity to traffic flow, he added.

The existing Eggners Ferry Bridge opened to traffic in March 1932. It carries approximately 2800 vehicles across Kentucky Lake/The Tennessee River in an average day.

A 322 ft. span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge was struck and knocked into Kentucky Lake by the 8200 ton Cargo Ship Delta Mariner on the night of January 26, 2012. KYTC engineers developed plans to rebuild the missing span and restore traffic to the bridge in 17 weeks.

Work has already started on construction of a replacement bridge immediately downstream from the existing Eggners Ferry Bridge. Work on a bridge across a lagoon and earthen causeways for the new lake crossing are nearing completion. Work on a new $131.5 million Basket Handle Arch main river crossing at the site is expected to start in a matter of weeks. For more information go to http://www.lakebridges.com.

The existing Eggners Ferry Bridge is at Tennessee River navigation mile point 41.7 near Aurora.

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Lane restriction scheduled for Eggners Ferry Bridge