West Virginia Officials Update Weirton Overhead Bridge Project at City Council Meeting

State and local officials in Weirton are moving forward with a major infrastructure overhaul combining an overhead bridge project with intersection improvements at the bottom of Pennsylvania Avenue, Main Street, and West Virginia Route 2.

City Manager Mike Adams shared the update during Monday’s Weirton City Council meeting. The work connects directly to industrial access roads for the former Weirton Steel properties.

The bridge and intersection projects initially started as separate undertakings. State officials later combined them for economic reasons.

“While the contractors are there and installing the new bridge and in its new configuration because it’s going to mate right up to the right up to be intersection,” Adams said at the meeting, “It seemed like just to make it one big project.”

Crews have already taken down half of the existing overhead bridge. The structure is transitioning from four lanes down to two lanes as part of the reconfiguration.

Progress on the industrial access road link is already underway. Officials note that completing the full overhaul will take approximately two years.

Adams described the intersection work as the linchpin for future development on the former Weirton Steel properties. He also pointed out that Main Street functions as West Virginia Route 2, making the corridor a high-priority route for the state Department of Highways.

“It’s an important site but it’s also people forget Main Street in Weirton is also West Virginia Route 2 north and south, so these are these are big projects taken on by the state and it made a lot of sense to do everything at one time if at all possible,” Adams said.

City leaders expressed appreciation for the West Virginia Department of Highways for its help improving infrastructure, traffic and industrial access road projects.