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| The 2.4-mile Herbert C. Bonner Bridge has chipped concrete and rusted steel. The bridge has a sufficiency rating of 2 out of 100. GERRY BROOME | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO |
By CATHERINE KOZAK, The Virginian-Pilot © August 28, 2007
OREGON INLET, N.C.
It's been an epic bureaucratic struggle with potentially harmful consequences at every turn, but a team of officials from several agencies decided Monday which design should replace the crumbling Herbert C. Bonner Bridge.
After meeting for more than three hours, the four men agreed that the most practical, least environmentally damaging alternative would be to first construct a short bridge roughly parallel to the existing bridge, and later add small bridges over trouble spots on N.C. 12, depending on erosion.