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The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a $1 million contract to replace the bridge on City Pond Road over the North Fork of Jones Creek to Smith-Rowe, LLC of Mt. Airy.

Crews can get started as early as Aug. 22 and have the bridge open to traffic by May 2023. Additional work like landscaping and vegetation establishment can go on through November 2023.

During construction, drivers will be detoured offsite via N.C. 109, Capel Dairy Road and N.C. 742, returning to City Pond Road.