Work starts on replacing steel bridge

Motorists traveling on the Haines Highway should be extra alert around 26 Mile Haines Highway, where construction on the state’s Klehini River Bridge replacement project began last week.

Department of Transportation spokesperson Jeremy Woodrow said the $6.7 million project – awarded to Southeast Roadbuilders – will replace the deteriorating steel bridge with a “decked, bulb-tee girder bridge,” similar to ones spanning Big Boulder and Little Boulder creeks.

The project also will realign Porcupine Road from…