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Saturday, June 03, 2006
Bonner Bridge Work Now at Night
 The NC DOT has been feverishly working to shore up the 43-year-old Herbert C. Bonner Bridge one last time as a temporary fix until a more permanent solution can be implemented. During the repairs travelers have found slow moving traffic over the Oregon Inlet with one lane closed during the day. In an effort to be more accommodating to tourists, both lanes will now be open during the day and on weekends as all crews will now only work at night through Labor Day. Work should be completed late in the year. Long-term options for replacement are still being debated and include a parallel bridge and a 17 mile bridge that connects Oregon Inlet directly to Rodanthe. More than $50 million dollars have been spent in the last few decades to keep the 40 year old bridge operational, but recent surveys have given the Bonner Bridge a stability rating of 4 out of 100. Oregon Inlet has moved more than two miles farther south since it first opened in 1846; an aerial photographic history of Oregon Inlet is available from the Army Corps of Engineers.
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