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Tuscaloosa council approves bid plan to prioritize structural repairs on Veterans Memorial Parkway pedestrian bridge
Summary
Council directed staff to structure a contract that puts structural repairs in the base bid and lists non‑safety fence work as alternates, acknowledging $750,000 already budgeted and up to $750,000 more proposed toward an estimated $1.5 million project.
The Tuscaloosa City Council voted to move forward with a bidding strategy that prioritizes structural repairs to the Veterans Memorial Parkway pedestrian bridge while treating non‑safety fence work as bid alternates.
City engineering staff told the council the work needed to preserve the bridge’s condition would include scraping and repainting structural steel and cleaning and sealing the concrete bridge deck, and that full fence replacement could be scaled back to safety‑critical elements to reduce cost.
Bill, the city presenter, said the larger…
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