A project years in the making to replace a bridge nearly 80 years old on North Main Street is still in the works, but no timeline has yet been presented by the Georgia Department of Transportation to the city for progress on the project.

Moving utilities around caused a delay in the work earlier this year as water, sewer and other cabling uses the bridge to cross the stream that connects with the Dry Creek watershed and onward to Cedar Creek and beyond.

Now the city is in a holding pattern, waiting for word on when the work will actually begin and shut down a major artery through Cedartown.

Cedartown officials earlier this year in preparation for the work to begin this summer undertook safety steps on North College Street – and then the whole stretch – to put up stop signs to slow down traffic as it is used as a bypass for the work, and set the speed limit to decrease the chance of residential streets becoming speedways.

Since then, it has been a waiting game for the city with the Georgia Department of Transportation.

City Manager Edward Guzman is hopeful that an upcoming status meeting on the project in late August will provide some kind of idea of when the work will begin in the coming months, so planning can begin around the necessary traffic shift.

Until then, the city’s done their part of the job. Now it is just waiting for the state to get to work.