The bridge work was done on U.S. 219, Seneca Trail in Tucker County, approximately 2.7 miles north of the Randolph County line and approximately a mile south of Route 219/10.

Travis L. Ray, the District Eight Engineer for the state Division of Highways, made the announcement regarding the completion of the bridge construction.

Crews have been working on the overhead bridge project for several years, with drivers on U.S. 219 experiencing traffic delays in the summer of 2023 due to the ongoing construction.

The Kerens to Parsons project will carry the Corridor H highway through some of the most rugged terrain to be found on the entire route.

The bridge work was done on U.S. 219, Seneca Trail in Tucker County, approximately 2.7 miles north of the Randolph County line.

The four-lane highway project begins at Weston and travels across central West Virginia and will eventually link up with Interstate 81 in Strasburg, Virginia.

Officials expect the highway to open some of West Virginia’s most remote areas in Grant, Tucker, and Hardy counties to economic development, connect West Virginia’s highlands with eastern ports, speed travel times through the mountains, and provide a smooth, safe highway for travelers and residents.

“It’s access. It’s commerce. It’s safety,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said last year during a trip to Tucker County to see Corridor H construction progress. “It’s the ability to bring people in for tourism, for economic development. To move goods back and forth across the country more safely, and maybe, in a lot of cases once this comes through, more quickly.”

“I jokingly said to somebody that I’m going to see Corridor H be completed in my lifetime and I’m planning to live to 100, but I’m hoping it doesn’t take that long, and I don’t think it will,” Capito said.

Also last year, then-Gov. Jim Justice joined other state and local officials at a groundbreaking ceremony for a nearly $50 million section of Corridor H in Tucker County.

“I have said it over and over and over, Corridor H is the most important of them all,” Justice said during the ceremony. “Some way, somehow, we are going to be under contract to have Corridor H done, before I leave office. We’re going to finish this road.”