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 The I-35W bridge over the Mississippi in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour on August 1, 2007, plunging dozens of cars and their occupants into the river. The calamity disrupted transportation, aimed a spotlight on public infrastructure, and evoked an outpouring of public response. |
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About 600 workers are working 12-hour shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week on both sides of the Mississippi River to get the I-35W bridge rebuilt in the shortest amount of time possible.
(05/21/2008)
A new report on the 35W bridge collapse said the Minnesota Department of Transportation did not always follow its own maintenance policies, due in part to financial restraints.
(05/21/2008)
The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra is premiering a new work by Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vanska, called "The Bridge." It's inspired in part by the collapse of the I-35W bridge last summer.
(05/16/2008)
An arbitrator has ruled that the state had just cause in firing a Minnesota Department of Transportation employee, Sonia Morphew Pitt.
(05/16/2008)
Pawlenty signed the bill in his office with dozens of victims on
hand, some of them with tears in their eyes.
(05/08/2008)
MnDOT has shut down two lanes on one of the major bridges between Duluth and Superior Wisconsin.
(05/06/2008)
The Minnesota Legislature approved a $38
million compensation package for the victims today and sent it to a supportive Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
(05/05/2008)
The Minnesota Department of Transportation's new commissioner, Tom Sorel, talks about where he thinks the new gas tax revenue should be spent, and about the progress of replacing some critical bridges in Minneapolis and around the state.
(Midmorning,
05/05/2008)
Work on the new Interstate 35W bridge is
progressing so well that construction managers said Saturday they
expect to open it by mid-September instead of late December as
originally scheduled.
(05/03/2008)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty warned against a rush to judgment about the cause of the 35W bridge collapse, one day after likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain blamed it on wasteful spending.
(05/01/2008)
Republican John McCain said Wednesday that
the bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people last year
would not have happened if Congress had not wasted so much money on
pork-barrel spending.
(05/01/2008)
U.S. Representative Jim Oberstar is publicly urging the National Transportation Safety Board to reverse its decision not to hold a public hearing on last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
(04/23/2008)
A new report gives Minneapolis generally high
marks for its response to the I-35W bridge collapse, but
finds room for improvement as well.
(04/22/2008)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has named Tom Sorel, an official with the Federal Highway Administration, as the state's next transportation comissioner.
(04/21/2008)
With a month left in the 2008 Legislative session, that plan to compensate victims of the 35W bridge collapse is stuck.
(04/18/2008)
I-35W bridge reopening
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