West Leb Bridge By Sex Shop Reopens After Being Repaired Enough To Demolish In Next Year, Or So
City completes investment in bridge slated for imminent demolition and replacement in 2026 or 2027.
WEST LEB— City officials announced Wednesday that the Route 12-A dry bridge next to the dildo shop will reopen by midday, following a month-long emergency closure and detour to allow the City to make significant repairs to the bridge in preparation for its imminent demolition and replacement in the coming year, or so.
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The structural repairs made by the City, under the oversight of the State, were to insure the bridge remained structurally stable for vehicular traffic to continue using the red-listed bridge under the oft-delayed South Main Street (Route 12A) Dry Bridge Replacement Project can be completed. The Dry Bridge project was originally slated for 2025, has now been pushed back until 2026, or maybe 2027.
The replacement bridge project, which is now estimated to cost $21.1-million dollars, serves a State road over a spur rail line serving a single industrial customer into the State-owned Westboro Rail Yard. The spur-line terminates in West Lebanon, becoming the Mascoma River Greenway and Northern Rail Trail, a contiguous rail trail running from Lebanon to Concord, NH.
The railroad use is not expected to return, as sources note it is currently the 21st century.
The Lebanon taxpayers are responsible for $6.5-million of the project cost, including a recent additional allocation of $4-million due to cost escalations incurred over the most recent of the 27 years the bridge has been red-listed as structurally deficient.
In 2009, the entire Bridge project was estimated to cost $5.6-million in total, of which the City’s equivalent 30% proportionate share would have been around $1.7-million, a $4.8-million dollar increase to the Lebanon taxpayers over the past 15 years.
Experts note that that $4.8M could have been used to make long-desired improvements to Westboro Rail Yard, or literally anything else that would benefit citizens in West Lebanon.
The outgoing City Manager told the Valley News on March 10, 2025 that the bridge project was “a failure of government to provide critical services to its people.”
Under the City’s charter, the City Manager is the Chief Executive responsible for the municipal government.
Local sources note that the sex shop offers considerably cheaper ways to screw oneself.