NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Large cracks and holes are visible beneath the Main Street Viaduct that runs from 8th Street to 13th Street in downtown North Little Rock.
It is a structure that carries 19,000 cars daily and is nearly a century old. Nathan Hamilton, a North Little Rock city council member, emphasized the urgency of replacing the bridge, stating, “Our own engineers have said it is way past time.”
The job to fix the viaduct is quite costly. “It is probably a $50 million job and not only that, you have to work through the Department of Transportation which is Union Pacific,” North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick said…