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Center Bridge and Stockton Folks Want To Celebrate The Event WORK ABOUT FINISHED New Structure Is An Imposing One and Great Con venience CENTRE BRIDGE. July 15—Keen disappointment was expressed here last night and in Stockton, N. J., over the fact that no program has as yet been announced for the formal open ing of the new Delaware River bridge between this place and Stockton that will take place at noon tomorrow. The bridge is about completed and about ready for vehiclal traffic. Both approaches are being rushed to com pletion. The approach on the Penn sylvania side, a quite attractive one, was finished yesterday and the ap proach on the New Jersey side will be completed before Saturday. Foot traf fic has been using the bridge for some time. “LT know of no set program for the opening next Saturday,” said a promi nent resident of Stockton last night, “There may be a few celebrities here but so far as I know nothing has been planned. This is a keen disappoint ment to some of the residents of the section I understand. The bridge will simply be opened and that’s all.” The new structure is an imposing one. It is the finest between Trenton and Easton and replaces the old bridge that did duty for many years. The original piers were used in the construction of the new bridge although all of the pieces have been reinforced with concrete and steel. The floor of the bridge is of reinforced concrete with a layer of asphalt on top of the concrete. The framework is of structural steel. The formal opening next Saturday will mark the completion of a strucc ture that cost Pennsylvania and New Jersey approximately $280,000. The bridge opening also marks the opening of another “short cut to New York City for motorists. It will mean a short cut of three miles from Doyles town to Flemington, N. J. State Senator Clarence J. Buckman, of Langhorne, introduced the bill into the Pennsylvania Legislature appro priating $100,000 to be used with a like amount to be appropriated by New Jersey for the rebuilding of the bridge that was struck by lighting and des troyed by fire on July 22, 1923. Later a bill was introduced by Sena tor Buckman for the state of Pennsy lvania to take over a portion of the original route of the Old York Road, starting from the top of Lahaska hill straight across to the Delaware River at Centre bridge connecting with the bridge. This road when improved will diversify New York and New Jersey traffic to such an extent that it will greatly relieve other highways. At the present time the road from Stock ton to Flemington is being entirely re built with macadam and is nearly com pleted. With the Bucks county section of the road completed there will be improved highway from Doylestown by the way of the new bridge all the way to New York. The original bridge here was built in 1814 and completed a year later The bridge then connected Howell's Ferry, N. J., now Stockton, and Mit chell's Ferry, Pa., now Centre Bridge The original bridge was replaced in 1880 by a covered structure. In 1841 a large portion of the bridge was washed away and later rebuilt. The new structure was started in 1925 by the Joint Bridge Commission of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It will be operated starting tomorrow as a “free bridge.” The structure is between SOU and 900 feet in length and two canal bridges, one on each side of the river lead to the main structure itself. The canal bridge on the Pennsylvania side was erected by the Joint Commission while the canal bridge on the Jersey side was erected by the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company. Gordon Cooper, of Lambertville, sec retary of the Joint Bridge Commis sion, who it was said might know of ay plans for the formal opening of the bridge, is at his summer home in Sea Girt, N. J. The engineer in charge of the bridge stated last night that the only celebra tion that he knew of might take place would be an “honor parade” of auto mobiles to be “the first to cross” the new structure.
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Bristol Courier
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1927
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