The much-anticipated replacement of the historic Harbor River Bridge is scheduled to move forward this year and we’re getting closer as the new year moves on. Crews have already begun work at the site on both sides of the bridge and major construction is expected to begin about halfway through the year.
The current swing bridge was built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal to put people to work during the Great Depression. The project is set to remove the old swing bridge and replace it with a fixed span bridge, more akin to what the McTeer Bridge connecting Port Royal and Lady’s Island looks like.
SCDOT started the process back in March of 2017 and plans to replace the bridge along Sea Island Parkway with major construction to consist of removing the existing bridge and to construct a new bridge as well as major work including the associated road and drainage work necessary to tie the new approaches to the existing roadway.
Plans are for the project to take three years to complete.
