Bridge repair work halfway completed as I-35 anniversary approaches
Minnesota News-- We're coming up on the five-year anniversary of the 35-W Bridge collapse. Repair work on nearly 140 of Minnesota's most structurally-deficient bridges is nearing the halfway mark.
We're coming up on the five-year anniversary of the 35-W Bridge collapse. Repair work on nearly 140 of Minnesota's most structurally-deficient bridges is nearing the halfway mark.
The 2007 collapse of the 35-W Bridge prompted the state legislature to approve a ten-year, two-point-five-billion-dollar program to repair or replace dozens of bridges. According to reports, Mn-DOT will finish work on 13 bridges this year. Some of the largest and most critical projects over the coming months include the Highway-52 Lafayette Bridge in St. Paul and the Highway-61 Bridge in Hastings.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak says he and his wife went to funerals for people from multiple faiths, backgrounds and experiences and heard all their stories together -- and Rybak says it really reminded him to pay attention to strangers we live together with -- like people in the other cars on the freeway and people you're standing with in the elevator.
Thirteen people died and 145 were injured when the bridge fell into the Mississippi River on August 1st, 2007.
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