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Acting Transportation Commissioner Bob McFarlin
says a bridge in St. Cloud will remain closed until it can be
repaired or replaced.

      MnDOT closed the Highway 23-Division Street bridge
over the Mississippi River in St. Cloud this afternoon after some
bowing was found in three gusset plates.

      McFarlin says the bridge will remain closed until it's deemed
safe. He told reporters that if it can't be repaired, it will
remain closed until it can be replaced. He says it's too early to
say when that will be determined.

      The bridge carries four lanes of traffic, and about 31,000
vehicles per day.

      It's a steel truss bridge, similar to the 35W bridge that
collapsed in Minneapolis. Officials say a factor in that disaster
were gusset plates that were too thin.

      But State Bridge Engineer Dan Dorgan says the gussets in the St.
Cloud bridge were the proper thickness.

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Other state bridges being inspected

Acting Transportation Commissioner Bob McFarlin
says a bridge in St. Cloud will remain closed until it can be
repaired or replaced.


MnDOT chief: Gusset problems lead to closing in St. Cloud

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