A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet plans to restrict traffic through Wednesday May 3 to
one lane on the New US 68/KY 80 Eggners Ferry Bridge.
This daytime lane restriction is to allow maintenance on the bridge navigation
lights. Both eastbound and westbound traffic will move to the left-hand or passing
lane in this work zone.
Approximately 3,500 vehicles cross the new Eggners Ferry Bridge over
Kentucky Lake at Aurora in an average day.
The new $133 million basket handle arch structure was first opened to 2-lane traffic
in December 2015 with 4-lane traffic starting in December 2016. The new bridge
serves a river crossing that started with a ferry as early as the 1830s. The first
bridge constructed at the site opened to traffic in 1932.
The Eggners Ferry Bridge is at US 68 Marshall County mile point 28.146
and Trigg County mile point 0.0 at the western entrance to Land Between The Lakes
National Recreation Area.
The bridge is at Tennessee River navigation mile point 41.7 near Aurora.