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The new Interstate 35W bridge over the
Mississippi River will start looking a little more like a bridge
over the next several weeks.


      Workers are at the site of the new bridge Sunday. They are
beginning to lift some concrete parts of the main bridge span into
place. The work was supposed to start Sunday morning, but was
pushed back to the afternoon.


      Two 198-ton concrete segments are being attached to the main
piers on the downtown side of the bridge, and eventually, those
segments will be attached to 118 others as the bridge is built
piece by piece.


      The old bridge spanning the river collapsed on August 1, killing
13 people and injuring 145 others.

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The new Interstate 35W bridge over the
Mississippi River is expected to start looking a little more like a
bridge over the next several weeks.

Concrete segments to go up on new I-35W bridge

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