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ImageThe Triphammer Road bridge that crosses over Route 13 in the Village of Lansing will be fixed next summer, an entire year after it was damaged.  Last June the overpass was hit by a truck that was loaded too high with pylons used to make windmills.  Mayor Donald Hartill says he has gotten word from state officials that the repairs have tentatively been scheduled for June.

Hartill says the repairs will likely take two months to complete, but repairs to the state-owned overpass will not incur a cost to the Village, except a couple of months of inconvenience.  "June and July are going to be somewhat painful getting across the bridge," he says.

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Hartill recently took his sister-in-law, a former California Department of Transportation civil engineer with bridge repair experience, to inspect the scene and get her advice.  She told him that it is unlikely the state will be able to repair the damaged support.  That means the I-beam will have to be replaced.

"They're going to have to remove 100-some odd feet of sidewalk on that side," he says.  "There are conduits that supply power to the lights on both sides of the bridge that will have to be taken out.  They then have to cut down through the deck, or do something to the deck to get that beam out, and then replace everything."

Hartill says the bridge will probably be down to, at most, three lanes for more than a month.

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