Highway Construction Halts For Winter

{Charleston, West Virginia}…DOH Spokesman Brent Walker says much was accomplished from June through last week on the concrete replacement project on Interstates 64 and 77 in Charleston, but the construction has been suspended for the winter. A California-based company is being paid $21 million to replace the original surface put into place when the interstates were built in the 1970s. Walker says, when the job resumes in March, the concentration will be on elevated on and off ramps and the three lanes heading westbound to the Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge. He says the concrete will also be replaced on the bridge. The remaining work could stretch through the summer next year.