Remember that bridge across Lake Champlain that all of a sudden officials deemed had to be shut and torn down before it fell into the lake back in late 2009?
Well, the replacement is done already.
As you can see in the video, the bridge’s main span was built on land, then floated up the lake and lifted into place, much like our Iway Bridge.
Original estimates forecasted it taking 8 years to build a new bridge. Construction of the new bridge began in June 2010.
More at Transportation Nation.
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is now "reevaluating" the bridge project, RIDOT Director Peter Alviti Jr. said in a statement in response to questions from The Providence Journal.
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Yesterday, the Lake Champlain Bridge between Crown Point, NY and Addison, VT was demolished, and the Burlington (VT) Free Press has the video. You may have heard that the bridge was shut down by New York and Vermont...
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Jef Nickerson
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