Pressure Mounts to Complete the Puyallup River Bridge
The Chamber of Commerce confronts the Mayor over significant delays in finishing critical city infrastructure.
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The committee of the chamber of commerce, which was chosen to wait upon Mayor Wright and explain to him the necessity of hastening completion of the Puyallup river bridge called upon the mayor at his office in the city hall this morning. The Puyallup river bridge should have been completed and opened for traffic about a month ago and the long-continued delay has been robbing the Tacoma merchants of many thousands of dollars' worth of business. Mayor Wright assured the committee of his hearty cooperation in the work and promised to bring all possible pressure to bear upon the contractors to hurry matters. The committee was composed of Joshua Pierce, T. B. Wallace and Secretary White.
“The Puyallup river bridge should have been completed and opened for traffic about a month ago and the long-continued delay has been robbing the Tacoma merchants of many thousands of dollars' worth of business.”
Infrastructure delays and their impact on local commerce are perennial issues in Tacoma, reflecting the same tension between municipal oversight and contractor performance that exists in modern public works projects.
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