LaFayette Road near Country Club Lane will be closed from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, so the contracting firm Scott and Murphy can install another section of the Hopkinsville Greenway pedestrian bridge.
When it is completed, the bridge will span Country Club Lane and LaFayette Road. It is part of the 1.7-mile rail-trail extension that takes the greenway from the Pardue Lane Trailhead to the area of Foston Chapel Road near Eagle Way.
The greenway is a city of Hopkinsville project.
“Once installed the 1,400-foot bridge, spanning over a quarter mile, will be the longest of its kind in the commonwealth,” a city official said in a press release.
The first section of the bridge was installed Aug. 5 over Country Club Lane.
(Jennifer P. Brown is the editor and founder of Hoptown Chronicle. Reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org.)
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
