CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Editor's Note: This video portion of this story incorrectly stated that the project finished a month and 2 weeks early. It was actually finished just two weeks early.
Flour Bluff residents rejoice!
The Yorktown mud bridge will reopen Friday, city manager Peter Zanoni confirmed at the Corpus Christi City Council meeting on Tuesday. The bridge was closed in December due to "significant damage."
"Our mud bridge on Yorktown will be opening this Friday at 9 for traffic in both directions," Zanoni said. "As we know, it has been under reconstruction for some issues that were identified that became apparent after a sinkhole."
There will be a short ceremony with city leaders before the bridge is reopened Friday, Zanoni said. Corpus Christi Councilmember Dan Suckley said the the bridge's completion is welcome news to many.
"I know folks have been anxious and it seems like it's been a long time to do a major reconstruction of a bridge in our city that's unexpected to mobilize to get to this point. Super excited to see it come to a conclusion Friday," he said.
Zanoni said the project is within budget and was finished within the scheduled time by local contractor Anderson Columbia.
District 5 Councilmember Gil Hernandez said that even though the bridge is nearly repaired, there is still a lot that needs to be done to improve the surrounding area.
"You know we're going to expand Rodd Field, we're going to widen Yorktown, we're going to widen the bridge and at some point widen Yorktown into Flour Bluff. So I get it. We're dealing with a lot of neglect from years past. We're trying to improve things to where things are a lot better," he said.
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