{"id":20503,"date":"2024-10-08T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2024-10-08T14:34:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:34:54","slug":"decatur-bridge-to-gain-new-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/decatur-bridge-to-gain-new-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur bridge to gain new lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barring the unforeseen, the hundreds of people participating in Decatur’s Callithumpian Parade on Oct. 28 will be seeing a little more of the Wendell Macklin Bridge on Monroe St. as they pass over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its latest meeting, the city’s board of works and safety approved an expenditure of $12,800 to have a new light erected at the bridge. Then, in its ensuing meeting, city council gave final approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The darkness around the bridge had been brought before council a few weeks back by Councilwoman Jenny Bowers-Shultz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert told the board at its meeting that he had contacted the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and they had no problem with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThey just said it would be ours to do,\u201d Gilbert reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Monroe St. is a federal highway, overseen by INDOT.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert said he also talked with officials at Michigana Contracting, which had installed lights already at the bridge, \u201cand they agreed that the area was too dark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the officials gave him a quote of $12,800 to install the light on a 40-foot pole and that they thought it could be done in time for the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilbert also noted that one of the lights in the bridge area had been removed a few years back when the city installed decorative lights in poles in the downtown area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The light will go up on the north side of the bridge’s east end which, Mayor Dan Rickord said, should prove helpful to those using the nearby trail head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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