A milling machine cuts away nearly a foot of old asphalt from the roadway leading to the Main Street Bridge as construction crews prepare the causeway for equipment that will be used to demolish the concrete bridge.
A line of trucks waited for their turn hauling away the older asphalt surface to a recycling plant where it will be reused for other road surfaces. A single truck, depending upon its size, require just a few minutes under the articulated overhead belt before it was filled with the old surface.
The milling machine, operated by the Kokosing company, is to be fitted with a GPS control system that will automate its operation to assure exact positioning of the milling teeth in the roadway. The new equipment checks cutting depth, direction, and speed as primary functions for the soon to be automated device.
