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Historic Bridge to Remain Open

By Greg Bebermeyer

09/11/2015

(KNZA)--A historic bridge southeast of Fairview will remain open.

Brown County Commissioner Warren Ploeger announced Tuesday the bridge on Coyote Road will not be closed because the state has agreed to allow the county to substitute another bridge in its place and still receive additional state funding.

A group of county residents met with the Commission last week to urge them to keep the bridge built in 1913 open, saying it’s used regularly. The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

The county had planned to close the bridge as part of a special one-time funding program through the Kansas Department of Transportation for the replacement of small truss bridges. As part of that program, Brown County was able to obtain $120,000 in funding toward the replacement of a bridge northwest Morrill, and, if another bridge was closed, there was an additional $40,000 available.

Instead of closing the bridge on Coyote Road, Ploeger said the county will now close a wood deck bridge on Bittersweet Road near 175th Road. The county had planned to replace the bridge with a tube next year.

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