Senoia's

Bridge Street will now lose its historic wooden bridge to

vehicular traffic.

Tuesday

night, the city agreed to allow only non-motorized

transportation on the bridge.

The city

recently received a letter from Norfolk Southern that

deeded the bridge to the city with one caveat.

If the

rairoad ever opens the line again, the railroad will take

back possession and build a higher wooden bridge.

In

November, Mayor Joan Trammell told the City Council and

the residents that the bridge is getting too old and

rickety for cars.

Trammell,

who lives on Bridge Street, says the bridge is being used

now as a "jumping-off" place for a lot of cars

and the wooden bridge cannot continue to take that kind

of abuse.

To get the

bridge up to vehicular standards would cost thousands of

dollars and probably result in a concrete bridge, instead

of the creaky wooden structure that has seen several

generations of Senoia residents drive over it.

Trammell

expects the bridge to be closed within a month and said

the city will not have to spend any money on repairs,

since cars will no longer be using it.