CENTREVILLE, MI (WTVB) – The Michigan Department of Transportation will soon remove an historic bridge east of Centreville and move it to Cass County.
Crews will begin removing the M-86 bridge on July 18.
The historic camelback pony truss bridge will be restored and moved 50 miles away.
The $4.9 million investment includes constructing a new bridge from July to November of this year and restoring and relocating the original bridge from this month through September 2017.
The new bridge will be the first MDOT bridge to use carbon fiber composite strand reinforcement which will extend the life of the bridge for at least 25 years.
The bridge was originally built in 1923 on Telegraph Road over the Rouge River in Detroit. The bridge was moved to its current location in 1938 under the Public Works Administration program.
