$65M IN BRIDGE PROJECTS IN DAYTON NEAR THEIR END

With the opening of the Webster Street Bridge this month, Dayton has finished the 10th of 11 bridge replacement projects.

The project’s origins started in 1999, when the city recognized many of its bridges were close to 75 years old and needed replacement. The first in the $64.6 million project to finish was the Findlay Street Bridge over the Mad River, which opened in May 2006.

In more than 11 years since, nine other new bridges have opened, transforming the over-river transportation in Dayton.

Work on the final project, the Helena Street Bridge, is expected to be finished in December at a cost of $6 million. Here’s a look at the completed projects and their cost:

■ Webster Street Bridge over the Mad River

Opened: Nov. 2, 2017 Cost: $10.1 million

■ Broadway Street Bridge over Wolf Creek

Opened: Sept. 16, 2013 Cost: $2.4 million

■ Rosedale Drive Bridge over Wolf Creek

Opened: Oct. 25, 2011 Cost: $1.9 million

■ Philadelphia Drive Bridge over Wolf Creek

Opened: Jan. 11, 2011 Cost: $3.4 million

■ Edwin C. Moses Boulevard Bridge over Wolf Creek (aka the Veterans Memorial Bridge) Opened: May 13, 2010 Cost: $4.3 million

■ Stewart Street Bridge over the Great Miami River Opened: Nov. 30, 2009 Cost: $15.4 million

■ Dayton Expressway Bridge over Keowee Street

Opened: Nov. 3, 2008 Cost: $6.6 million

■ Paul Lawrence Dunbar Street Bridge over Wolf Creek Opened: July 29, 2008 Cost: $2.4 million

■ Washington Street Bridge over the Great Miami River Opened: Dec. 6, 2007 Cost: $7.6 million

■ Findlay Street Bridge over the Mad River

Opened: May 5, 2006 Cost: $4.5 million

TY GREENLEES / STAFF The $11 million Webster Street Bridge project over the Mad River was completed Nov. 2. Here, contractors work to ready the concrete-spanned and lighted bridge days before the ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the bridge. The cost of the...