A Bangor city plow truck earlier this month clipped and cracked a metal portion of a Kenduskeag Stream bridge that runs behind the Charles Inn to Bangor Savings Bank in downtown Bangor, closing it off to vehicle traffic.
“One of our plows hit the expansion joint and damaged it,” Bangor Public Works Director Dana Wardwell said of the York Street bridge. “It’s just a metal piece right on the surface.”
Bridges are built with expansion joints to allow the concrete top to expand and contract with temperature change without cracking, he said. A new metal expansion joint needs to be welded and installed, which should be done by early next week.
The damage occurred sometime during the March 8 nor’easter, and Wardwell said he thought it had already been fixed. He called a crew to the site to fix it Thursday morning.
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