The Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Bridge will reopen later this month following the completion of a $20.1 million repair project that kept the span closed for more than two years, city officials said.

The bridge that crosses the Schuylkill River near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, connecting MLK Drive to Eakins Oval, is on track to open to pedestrians and cyclists at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 19. Motor vehicles can use the bridge starting at 7 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 22.

The MLK Drive Bridge opened in 1965 as a connector between West Philly neighborhoods and Center City. During an inspection in 2021, crews found major deterioration to the steel framing of the 690-foot-long span. At the time, the bridge and the rest of MLK Drive already had been closed to vehicles during the early days of t

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