Work began late in 2000 on a $15,906,389 Monongalia County contract, the second project on West Virginia's four-mile portion of the Mon-Fayette Expressway.

        Adjoining a completed 2.08-mile segment of the superhighway, the Rubles Run Bridge crosses the stream of the same name near the Pennsylvania border and includes a small amount of paving in Pennsylvania on the northern approaches of the 0.39-mile project.  The six-span fabricated steel girder bridge built by National Engineering & Contracting Company of Strongsville, Ohio, used 5,387,547 pounds of structural steel and $10.5 million in federal funds obtained by Senator Robert C. Byrd.

        Designed to link I-68 near Cheat Lake to the Pittsburgh area, the expressway will require four additional contracts, including another major bridge and an interchange with I-68, in the Mountain State.