BRIDGE

Hastings bridge is coming down

Minnesota News
It’s official: The big blue bridge across the Mississippi River in Hastings will be coming down.

By Keith Grauman , March 05, 2009

Bids: Dakota County Transportation Department, Bridge Repair

January 30, 2009

MnDOT: Bridge program improved

Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – Transportation officials said they completed extensive statewide bridge inspections, planned to hire more engineers and improved the way bridge reviews are handled.

By Scott Wente , November 13, 2008

MnDOT has four options on the table for new Hastings bridge

And then there were four. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has settled on four options for the replacement of the Hastings bridge.

By Keith Grauman , October 07, 2008

Local choir will perform at bridge memorial

It’s taken a lot of work and caused more than its share of anxiety, but when people gather Friday afternoon to mark the first anniversary of the collapse of the 35W bridge Rosemount will be well represented.

By Nathan Hansen , August 01, 2008

Rosemount Town Pages podcast for August 1

We're a little bit late with this week's Rosemount Town Pages news podcast, but we hope you'll feel like it was worth the wait. This week's podcast is a little bit different. We caught up with Rosemount High School choir director Gina Toso Thursday night at one of just two rehearsals held for a joint St. Joseph and RHS choir that is scheduled to sing today at a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the I-35W bridge collapse. A similar choir sang at the funeral of St. Joseph member Peter Hausmann, who died in the collapse.

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August 01, 2008

I-35W bridge growing together

Minnesota State News
MINNEAPOLIS – North and south ends of the new Interstate 35W bridge rapidly grow toward each other over the Mississippi River.

By Don Davis, Minn. State Capitol Bureau Chief , June 25, 2008

Truck drops Caterpillar off Duluth bridge, damages I-35

Minnesota State News
DULUTH, Minn. -- A Caterpillar earth scraper fell off a flatbed trailer coming down U.S. Highway 53 and plunged more than 40 feet to the ground below Wednesday morning, clipping an elevated section of northbound Interstate 35 during its fall.

June 19, 2008

Collapsed bridge’s successor may be complete by September

Minnesota State News
MINNEAPOLIS — Two halves of a new Interstate 35W freeway bridge stretch toward each other over the Mississippi River, separated by a gap of about 200 feet that shrinks with each day as workers toil around the clock.

By Patrick Condon , June 19, 2008

Hastings bridge will close over two weekends

Minnesota News
Consider this fair warning: the Hastings bridge will be closed June 13-15 and June 20-22. Both lanes. All weekend long.

By Keith Grauman , June 02, 2008

Report critical of MnDOT’s decisions relating to Interstate 35W bridge prior to its collapse

Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL — Transportation officials called the Minneapolis bridge a “budget buster,” so expensive to fix or replace that decisions were put off, for years, until it collapsed last August.

By Brian Bakst and Joshua Freed , May 22, 2008

Single lane on Hastings bridge extended by an hour through May 9

Construction crews reduced traffic on the Hastings bridge to one lane for most of the past two weeks as they worked to install a platform beneath the deck to support equipment and workers during the project.

May 09, 2008

Agreement reached on bridge survivors' compensation

Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Minnesota lawmakers approved a plan Monday to pay survivors of last year’s Interstate 35W bridge collapse.

By Scott Wente, Minn. Capitol Bureau , May 06, 2008

McCain blames federal earmarks for I-35 bridge collapse

State News
Presidential candidate John McCain’s blaming of federal earmarks as causing the Interstate 35W bridge to collapse in Minneapolis upset the Minnesota Senate’s transportation chairman.

By Don Davis, Minn. State Capitol Bureau Chief , May 02, 2008