CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – It’s still running 6 months behind original projections, but some significant Belmont Bridge news. A city release says vehicle travel lanes across the new bridge are being shifted to their final configuration this week. That doesn’t mean the construction is over… there’s still other work to do with the lighting and other aspects of the new eastern sidewalk to be completed, as well as other aspects of bridge access for pedestrians and motorists. But traffic this week will be traveling over the bridge as the project has designed it.

City Manager Sam Sanders said a few weeks ago the entire project is expected to be completed in mid-June.