The state of Vermont is auctioning a custom-made ferry slip it built to
help passengers cross Lake
Champlain while a bridge was
being replaced between West
Addison and Crown Point, N.Y.
Public displays telling the story of the
former Lake Champlain Bridge
have been installed at each end of the new span that connects New York and Vermont.
Commuters
have an easier trip to work and home again now that the new Lake Champlain Bridge has opened. The half-mile-long bridge connects Crown Point and Addison.
Some
commuters who travel between Vermont and New York will be in the unusual situation today of taking a
ferry to work, but returning home on a bridge. The
new Lake
Champlain Bridge between West Addison and Crown Point will open Monday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. People on both sides
of the lake have been waiting for this day.
The
Lake Champlain Bridge connecting West Addison, Vt., and Crown Point, N.Y., will replace a span that was destroyed in late 2009
after being found unsafe.
Hundreds of people gathered on Lake Champlain to watch the arrival of the final piece of steel of a
new bridge that will soon re-connect Vermont and New York. Two years ago,
the original bridge was suddenly closed because inspectors declared it unsafe.
There’s a big
engineering project under way on southern Lake Champlain. The huge arch that will be at the center of the new Lake Champlain Bridge between West
Addison and Crown Point is being installed today.