 Summer has arrived and Appalachian Wireless has a great sell on the world's hottest smartphone from now to the end of the month. You can get the amazing iPhone 13 for more than half off because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. A bridge being built as part of US 460 that will provide a shorter route between Pike County and Grundy Virginia is on route to being the tallest bridge in Kentucky. This bridge is over Palm Creek at Drafton. It is 300 and when completed it will be 324 foot tall which will be the tallest bridge in the state of Kentucky. Initially, I mean probably 15 years ago, we were going to do a field in Palm Creek and do a drainage tunnel to drain the creek. But after a public meeting we decided to go back with the bridge and so the design proceeded. The project was led to construction two years ago and they should be finished sometime next year. So essentially this Palm Creek bridge is a section of the overall US 460 project and we've been working in sections and completing in sections and that's why there's areas where that you can drive on now and areas that you can't drive because we're working in sections on those. Construction on the bridge began two years ago. The bridge is 1,000 feet long and due to difficult terrain, engineers had to get creative with how to put the bridge together. This is a steel break bridge. The spans are 225 feet, three of them in the center and the ones on the end are 175 feet. But the beams, generally our beams for approach this size are 120 foot long and it would have been very difficult to get them to the site to lift with the crane and conventional method. So they worked with stand-take engineering to design a launching system for this structure. The beams of the bridge were constructed on the road. 400 feet of the beams were constructed at one time and pushed across the valley without having to lift them. And it's kind of an unusual thing all around too, isn't it? Well yes, this is not done very often and again the only reason it was done here is because of the location. Since the beginning of construction there have been no delays and progress on the bridge has been running smoothly. For more information about the bridge or to see updates, live footage and time-lapse footage of the bridge's construction visit us460online.com. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.