Page 5 - Replacement Bridge News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A temporary solution is in the works in that bridge collapse that injured three in washington state last week. officials say new steel girders could restore traffic by mid-june along this crucial artery between the u.s. and canada. on thursday, a truck slammed into an overhead support on the bridge, knocking out a portion of interstate 5. a permanent replacement bridge is expected sometime this september. 46 minutes after the hour. cnn's jeanne moos now shows us why it is never smart for a driver to block a fire hydrant. >> reporter: at first glance you can almost mistake it for a snake. >> ...

Into world war two and other more pressing uses for american steel and american engineering fire power. it was not until a decade later they replaced it and put another bridge across the narrows. 1950, they built a new one. without the galloping girdy flaws of the old one. this one worked. but you know what, by this century, even that replacement bridge from 1950 and it was fine. but tacoma had outgrown it by the 2,000. in 2007, they opened up a whole new narrows bridge. and the great thing is they put it up right next to the old one. the good people of tacoma are