Massive Steel Bridge Project Commences
Construction has begun on the multi-hundred-thousand-dollar steel bridge to span the Columbia, a project slated to take up to 18 months.
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McCceary Willard, the Spokane men who have the contract for the new bridge across the Columbia, are now on the ground and the work proper has commenced. They report that five spans of the bridge have to be entirely built new and the balance of the structure stiffened up. It will be a steel bridge throughout when completed. It will require from twelve to eighteen months time to finish the work and the cost is estimated at from three to four hundred thousand dollars.
“It will be a steel bridge throughout when completed.”
This infrastructure investment marked Kennewick's transition into a vital transit node for the inland Pacific Northwest. Today, the bridge remains a critical artery for the Tri-Cities, mirroring the town's historical reliance on connection to the wider region.
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