Interesting omission

Yesterday afternoon, the West Virginia Division of Highways issued this news release:

The East Huntington Bridge over the Ohio River will be closed to all traffic starting at 7:00 PM Wednesday Evening, February 7, 2007 for eight hours. The bridge will open to traffic at 3:00 AM on Thursday morning February 8th."

It goes on to say this is for an inspection.

Notice that the DoH released referred to the bridge as the "East Huntington Bridge." Either someone didn't receive the memo that the name had been changed to the Frank "Gunner" Gatski Memorial Bridge, or the person who wrote the release didn't care.

In either case, I'm glad. For one more news cycle, the bridge has its old name and not that awful new one.

FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: The DoH now says the closure will begin in Feb. 13, not Feb. 7.