HUDSON – The Hudson Select Board unanimously approved a $477,470 contract for superstructure repairs for the bridge on Main Street over Danforth Brook at a meeting held on Aug. 15.
Select Board member James Quinn said the contract for the project, which is to Aetna Bridge Company, will be paid for through American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. Hudson has been allocated a total of $5.9 million in ARPA funds.
Quinn, who is the only member of the board who had been inside the bridge’s culvert and seen the damaged section, said when the damage was discovered, the town was instructed to close the street.
He said that Department of Public Works Director Eric Ryder convinced authorities to cover up the damaged section of the roadway instead.
“I have to give Mr. Ryder a heck of a lot of credit for arranging to at least keep one side of the street open for us during construction, and to have kept the street open to begin with for all this time,” Quinn said.
In a conversation with the Community Advocate, Ryder said that construction on the bridge was planned to start the Tuesday after Labor Day. The bridge’s eastbound lane will remain in normal service while the westbound lane will be detoured, he added.
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