Conway city issued the following announcement on Mar. 23.
Have you noticed all the activity around the Salem Road bridge at Tucker Creek?
We’re improving bicycle and pedestrian safety, accessibility, and connectivity by replacing the existing Salem Road bridge and realigning a portion of the Kinley Trail to pass below the bridge. Multi-use paths and sidewalks along Salem Road will provide additional connectivity to the Kinley Trail System.
The project begins south of Timberpeg Court and moves north of Wicket Street on Salem Road.
The project will replace the existing Salem Road Bridge over Tucker Creek with a new 110-foot-long and 80 foot wide bridge that will accommodate an underpass of Kinley Trail below the roadway, eliminating the existing at-grade trail crossing.
The roadway’s typical section consists of two 11-foot-wide travel lanes and an 11-foot-wide turn lane.
Improvements behind the curb will include 6-foot-wide green spaces, with an 18-foot-wide multi-use path on the west side of Salem Road and a 12-foot-wide path on the east side.
Additional height of the proposed bridge is needed to allow the underpass. As a result, the roadway elevations approaching each end of the bridge will be significantly higher.
Retaining walls will be utilized on the west and east sides of Salem Road to reduce impacts to existing properties. Open-style railing on the west side will allow multi-path users the ability to view Tucker Creek and associated park facilities.
When looking west from Kinley Trail, the trail will split into two separate multi-use paths approximately 300 feet east of Salem Road. A lower path will drop down in elevation to go under the proposed Salem Road Bridge and an upper path will rise in elevation to connect to the multi-use path along Salem Road.
Maintaining a westward view, the lower Kinley Trail path will pass beneath the proposed Salem Road Bridge within the northern most bridge span while providing a minimum of 9-foot-high vertical clearance from finished grade of trail to bridge.
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Original source can be found here.
Source: Conway city
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