The old trestle bridge over County Road 633 in Bingham Township is gone, and a new span will be going up in its place during the next two weeks.

Old trestle bridge removed.

Workers with L.W. Lamb, Inc., the general contractor for the project, removed the bridge and its concrete support abutments last week.

County Road Commission engineer James C. Johnson said Friday the supports for the new wooden-structure bridge would be installed starting Tuesday, June 5.

“They should be pounding the new support beams in this week,” he said.

The $212,000 project is being funded by a local match safety program grant administered through the Michigan Department of Transportation. TART Trails, Inc., secured the $28,000 local match, meaning no Road Commission funds will be used for the project.

Johnson said the new bridge will have two more feet of clearance than the old structure, and the supports will be two feet farther off the paved shoulder of 633, offering more room for vehicles.

The project will be completed by the end of June. The road traffic detour, and the alternative route for pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the Leelanau Trail, will remain in place until the project is completed.

Meanwhile, the director of the Michigan Department of Transportation’s Traverse City office said work will continue through the end of June on concrete joint repairs on M-22 between Suttons Bay and Lakeview Hills Road. “We’ll have traffic reduced to one lane, so there will be delays,” said Rise Rasch, who added the work will be completed by the weekend before July 4.

County Road Commission clerk Joe Nedow said the repaving of Revold Road between M-22 and 633 was completed last week, with only some shoulder repair work to be completed by commission workers this week.

Prep work has begun on the commission’s $1.2 million federal aid project to improve County Roads 669 and 616. Nedow said the combined project was pushed forward last fall when funds from the state’s 21st Century Jobs Today program became available for the local match grant. The 616 project will run from County Road 675 east to 669, with an estimated cost of $515,000. The 669 improvement will include roadwork on 616 north to Ryant Road, and has an estimated cost of $700,000.

The commission will also be using some of its own funds to improve 669 from M-22 south to Hlavka Road. Nedow said the work will leave a gap on 669 between Hlavka and Ryant roads, which the Road Commission plans to resurface sometime next year.

Commission workers are continuing to prepare streets in Leland for the paving work scheduled to be completed by the end of the month. Work crews are preparing the base of Reynolds Street from M-22 west to the beach. Nedow said prep work on Pearl Street, from M-22 east to the water’s edge, will continue this week as well. In addition to repaving the road, Leland Township will have an asphalt contractor repave the parking area at the adjacent Bartholomew Park.

Once prep work is completed on Cummins Street, Lake Streets, and parts of Juniper Street, a paving contractor will pour asphalt to complete the projects. After the July 4 holiday, work should begin on resurfacing Main Street in Lake Leelanau from Meinrad to M-204.

A VIEW LOOKING south shows the gap left when the old trestle bridge over County Road 633 in Bingham Township was removed last week.