The old Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge created a traffic bottleneck on I-64 between the cities of Charleston and Huntington during peak travel times. To relieve that congestion, the West Virginia Department of Transportation initiated a project that built two new bridges across the Kanawha River between the Nitro and St. Albans interchanges – a total of eight lanes – in addition to the widening of I-64 between Nitro and the US 35 interchange. The $225 million project utilized the existing piers of the old Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge for construction of a new Donald M. Legg Bridge on the original site. Reusing the original piers shortened the project’s overall construction time, allowing the project to deliver improved travel safety and reduced traffic congestion sooner. Eliminating this decades-old highway bottleneck also improved freight movement along I-64, allowing goods to flow more freely across West Virginia.