Bristol VA City Council to receive update on bridge projects, appoint interim city attorney

The Bristol City Council will recieve an update Tuesday night on projects to replace and rehabilitate three bridges that are currently in poor condition. The projects were approved for funding by the Virginia Department of Transportation’s State of Good Repair program. The money is a combination of state and federal funds used to improve or replace eligible structures. The bridge on Goodson Street over Beaver Creek and the bridge on Oak Street over the Norfolk Southern tracks will be replaced. The bridge on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard over Beaver Creek will be partially replaced and partially rehabilitated, according to officials with Bristol Va Public Works. All the bridges are in bad shape with and Oak Street Bridge being closed to traffic since 2018. Council members are also expected to appoint an interim city attorney during Tuesday’s meeting after Randy Eads, who served as both city manager and city attorney, resigned earlier this month to take a job as general counsel for the state’s new attorney general.