The oldest bridge in Northampton County is getting a makeover.<\/p>\n
County Bridge No. 149, which carries Cedar Drive over Indian Creek in Lehigh Township, was built in 1826 and has a unique three-span masonry arch design. It is considered to be in poor condition.<\/p>\n
County Executive Tara Zrinski announced Wednesday that the project received a $1.5 million Transportation Alternatives Set Aside grant for the rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe historic masonry of arch bridges like County Bridge No. 149 are becoming increasingly rare across Pennsylvania and the United States,\u201d Zrinski said. \u201cThis bridge is not only an engineering landmark, but also an important piece of Northampton County\u2019s historic character that we are proud will be preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bridge was built to withstand heavy loads and seasonal flooding long before modern steel and concrete bridges became standard. Since it is in poor condition, the grant will allow it to be repaired in a manner consistent with the original design; to remove, repair and reinstall bulging stone masonry spandrel walls, install guardrails, and add signs and hazard clearance markers, the news release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The oldest bridge in Northampton County is getting a makeover. County Bridge No. 149, which carries Cedar Drive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,20758,157,182,139,434,28,432,2155],"class_list":["post-209735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-township","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}