By MIKE CHALMERS • The News Journal • August 28, 2008

The Summit Bridge, which carries about 35,000 vehicles a day on Del. 896 over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, will be closed for a week in February to replace aging anchor pins that support the bridge's main structure, officials said Wednesday.

The 50-year-old bridge, which is undergoing surface repairs, is not unsafe, said Tim Rooney, canal project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers.

"It's not an imminent danger kind of thing, but it's a major repair that needs to take place," Rooney said.

The project, estimated to cost $1 million, will divert traffic onto the canal's four other crossings.

Traffic on one of those spans, the 66-year-old St. Georges Bridge to the east, already is restricted to two lanes and vehicles less than 15 tons. It likely will be undergoing its own major repair project at the same time as the Summit Bridge closure, Rooney said. The Corps is set to begin a $2.3 million, six-month project in October to repair the St. Georges Bridge's bearings and piers, which are cracked and corroded.

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WHAT??? I live literally steps from that damn f-ing bridge. It's not bad enough that they have to inconvenience us for 2 years while they repave the road - not even the bridge - now they are going to close it!! There is an accident at least once a day on that bridge since they started construction. You take your life in your own hands just driving across it and now you have to worry if it's going to collapse under you!! aaaarrrggghhhh!!!