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Guide bridge delay ongoing


Submitted by the Tribune on February 2, 2010 - 4:57pm.

  LYNDEN — The Washington Department of Transportation announced proudly that it would open the new Guide Meridian Road bridge over the Nooksack River one day and then cancelled that plan the very next day.
  An announcement last Tuesday, Jan. 26, said that the bridge would open Thursday morning, Jan. 28, 15 days before the self-imposed deadline of the Feb. 12 Vancouver, B.C., Winter Olympics.
  Then, on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 27, the DOT said that the contractor wasn’t ready yet.
  The bolts needed tightening and supports under the bridge needed a final going over, according to the DOT.
  No new date for the opening of the bridge has been announced, but DOT officials still promise an opening of the Nooksack bridge and the new Fishtrap Creek bridge by Feb. 12.
  — Tim Newcomb