Discussion: How to celebrate the new I-35W bridge opening
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How do you celebrate the year-long effort to recover from a tragedy?
The new I-35W bridge will reopen Tuesday. Now, how do officials open it? Should midnight roll around and the barriers be removed some evening? Should there be a ceremony of some sort? And how would you celebrate the incredible work of rebuilding the bridge while not minimizing the deaths of 13 people in the collapse of the I-35W structure last August?
And what do we call the new bridge? Should it have a name besides "the 35-W bridge"?
If you favor a ceremony, who would you invite? Assuming the governor is there, do you invite any of the DFL lawmakers who engineered the dismissal of his transportation commissioner over the tragedy? If there's a ribbon to be cut, who cuts it?
Discuss.
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