Despite six-month fish moratoriums, construction of a 3,200-ft-long bridge connecting Carteret County in North Carolina directly to Harkers Island has been completed a year ahead of its original schedule.
Demolition of the original Earl C. Memorial Bridge, a steel drawbridge, is slated to wrap up this month while Bridge No. 96, which continued the connection past a fishing pier causeway, is being repurposed as a pedestrian bridge to provide access to the center island and a renovated Straits Fishing Pier.