Senator highlights construction’s challenges
By Taylor McKinnie, The Inter-Mountain
PARSONS, W.Va. – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt visited Parsons Tuesday after taking a tour of the Kerens to Parsons section of Corridor H, both speaking optimistically about the project.
Capito brought Bhatt to Tucker County to show the ongoing construction on Corridor H, to see first-hand the connectivity the finished road will provide and to see the reason for the higher construction costs.
Bhatt was driven through the Kerens to Parsons portion of construction by Capito and state Department of Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston to see the newly completed elements of the highway, bridge construction efforts and excavation underway for future projects aimed at completing Corridor H.
“We’re really happy to have the administrator here,” Capito told reporters outside Piccolo Paula’s Caffé on Walnut Street in Parsons Tuesday afternoon. “The construction that we see now, the bridges that are being built, is very exciting. I wanted him to see it first-hand. To see how difficult it is to build in West Virginia, but also how important it is to this region for our state.”
Capito said she, Bhatt and Wriston spoke about issues such as safety, electric vehicles, contracting authority, fish and wildlife issues and more during the tour. She also said they were able to see the care that WVDOT is taking on the environmental impact during their tour.
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