Casteel Road bridge replacement

Casteel Road closure for bridge replacement continues into August

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Casteel Road bridge construction

A Casteel Road closure that’s been in place since the start of summer school vacation will be lasting into the start of a new school year.

Ongoing construction work to replace the aging Piney Grove Creek bridge means that Casteel Road will now be closed until Aug. 15.

Initially DOT had estimated a completion around July 31, since Cobb schools return on Aug. 1.

The $1.2 million project includes a wider passage on Casteel Road over the bridge, with shoulders, sidewalks and barriers on both sides, and a reconfiguration of its intersection with Bill Murdock Road and Oak Lane.

Through traffic on all three roads near the bridge site is being met with signs like the above, on Bill Murdock at Blakeford Club Drive.

A detour route prepared by Cobb DOT and mapped below continues to be in effect until the bridge work is done and the roads are reopened.

 

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Casteel Road bridge replacement to close traffic at Piney Grove Creek all summer

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Casteel Road, bridge repairs, Piney Grove Creek

Following up something we posted back in March, about the $1.2 million Casteel Road bridge replacement project over Piney Grove Creek:

Cobb DOT said today that traffic on Casteel Road where it meets Bill Murdock Road and Oak Lane at the creek and bridge will be closed starting Thursday, May 24, and will reopen on July 31.

The dates are timed for today’s end to the 2017-18 school year and the start of the 2018-19 school year on Aug. 1.

The 55-year-old bridge over Piney Grove Creek, what used to be called Sewell Creek, is being completely replaced, and the new construction will be wider, with shoulders, sidewalks and barriers on either side.

The three-way intersection also will be reconfigured, but for now, motorists will be able to travel between Oak and Bill Murdock, as indicated by the Cobb DOT map below showing suggested detours. More information is at cobbcommute.org.

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Casteel Road bridge replacement approved; will cost $1.2 million

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Casteel Road bridge replacement
The current bridge over Piney Grove Creek on Casteel Road. (East Cobb News photo by Wendy Parker)

A Casteel Road bridge replacement project costing $1.277 million was approved Tuesday by the Cobb Board of Commissioners.

The current 55-year-old bridge spanning Piney Grove Creek sits at the intersection of Casteel Road, Oak Lane and Murdock Road, and has been deemed deficient by the Cobb DOT.

It will be replaced by a wider bridge with shoulders, sidewalks and barriers on either side, and the configuration of the three-way intersection will be improved.

The contract was awarded to Tidwell Construction Co. of Douglasville, the low bid of four bids received. Most of the funding is earmarked in the 2016 Cobb SPLOST. The project is expected to be completed in 120 days of getting a notice to proceed from the county.

The commissioners also approved spending nearly $140,000 for intersection improvements at Terrell Mill Road at Brookview Road. The intersection is at the entrance of Terrell Mill Estates and a new residential development on the site of the former Shreiner Academy.

The funding also comes from the 2016 SPLOST, and the project was awarded to Excellere Construction of East Cobb.

 

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