TILTON — Motorists will be stopped Wednesday night for 5 to 10 minute intervals on Route 3/East Main Street, as Island Bridge is removed via crane and transported in four pieces on flatbed trucks as part of the bridge’s path to restoration.

Beginning around 7 p.m. and lasting for one hour, crews will work to remove the bridge at 253 E. Main, as part of the final phases of a multi-year effort to restore the structure. The closure will take place in short intervals, when traffic will be stopped for safety reasons.

“We’ll do it in intervals. We’ll make the first lift, it will take about 15 minutes from lift to placement on the truck, and then we’ll let traffic go,” explained Scott E. Hilliard, town administrator. “Then we’ll set up for the second lift. We’ll do the second lift, hold traffic

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