I-35W Minnesota River bridge
The I-35W Minnesota River Bridge is a six-lane steel girder bridge that carries Interstate 35W across the Minnesota River between Bloomington, Minnesota and Burnsville, Minnesota. It was built in 1960 by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
History
In March 1989, there was discussion of easing traffic congestion by opening two previously closed lanes leading to the bridge.[2] William Crawford, the district engineer in charge of the project, believed that there would be subsoil problems at the north end of the bridge if the lanes were opened. In response, then Governor Rudy Perpich ordered a soil study at the north end of the Interstate Hwy. 35W bridge over the Minnesota River to see if the two previously barricaded lanes could be opened to traffic. There was concern the $15 million investment to build the expanded approaches would be lost since, according to a Department of Transportation March 1989 statement, "the current bridge will be replaced eventually by a higher bridge."[2][3]
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