Several state road construction projects should finish up within a year

Major West Virginia highway projects in the region are on track to be completed later this year or in early 2025. Work is nearly complete on the new Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge, known as the Nitro-St. Albans bridge, which will be a major step forward in the project to expand Interstate 64 to six lanes, according to the West Virginia Department of Transportation. Work also continues on ramps and a new bridge over WV 25. Officials expect the interstate widening project in that area to be completed by late 2024 or early 2025. Work continues on a similar widening project between Barboursville and Huntington in Cabell County. The WVDOT said work is in the final phase of widening I-64 to eight lanes between East Mall Road and the Merritt’s Creek interchange and from Merritt’s Creek to the 29th Street exit. That should be finished in the spring of 2025. In Roane County, work is expected to be completed this fall on the Scott Miller Hill Bypass project, which will create a 4.3-mile stretch of roadway that bypasses a curvy section of U.S. 33.