BRIDPORT VOTERS WILL be asked at their town meeting to support a $325,000 repair plan for the 77-year-old Sunderland Bridge on Crown Point Road. The project calls for replacing the bridge’s deck.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
BRIDPORT — Bridport now can rightfully lay claim to the nickname of “Bridgeport.”
That’s because the community is confronting repairs to no less than four of its local bridges, beginning this March with the Sunderland Bridge on Crown Point Road.
Bridport residents on Town Meeting Day will be asked to spend up to $325,000 in town surplus funds to repair the 52-foot-long Sunderland Bridge, which straddles the western branch of Dead Creek on Crown Point Road, near its intersection with Basin Harbor Road.
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