County officials met with the DOT this month regarding a recent engineering report that estimated reopening the Beesleys Point bridge, which connects Cape May to Atlantic counties, would cost $32 million, not the $20 million identified in a 2006 DOT study, according to a report by the Press of Atlantic City today.
The report said Cape May County officials said the state Department of Transportation must determine whether it wants to commit more money to repair and reopen the Beesleys Point Bridge, the Route 9 toll bridge that has been closed nearly six years.
The 82-year-old bridge has been in limbo since June 2004, when the private owners, the Beesleys Point Bridge Co., said they could not afford repairs after an old concrete pier threatened to collapse into a steel support. The bridge has been closed since.
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