Contractors are continuing to hoist bridge girders into place over WV 817 as steel work continues on the new World War I Memorial Bridge over the Kanawha River on Interstate 64.

The bridge is part of the $244.4 million project to widen 3.8 miles of I-64 to six lanes, and to eight lanes between Nitro and St. Albans. When completed the new bridge will carry all westbound I-64 traffic. The existing span will carry eastbound…