A spokesman from the Georgia Department of Transportation says that new bridge at Chelsea Creek on Old Highway 337 is much safer than the old bridge that was replaced.

Grant Waltrop with the Georgia DOT said that the old bridge didn’t have much in the way of protection if someone was to hit the side of the bridge there was a possibility they could have went off in the creek.  Waldrop made the comments to The Summerville News this week.

The state paid for the majority of the bridge replacement and also paid a portion of the cost for moving a county waterline that had to be relocated in order for the new bridge to be built.

The bridge was finished ahead of the end-of-October deadline.