Since its debut in the 1920s, the Second Avenue bridge has spanned the Rum River in Cambridge, serving as the icon of that Minnesota community’s park system.
The city’s plans to tear down the nearly 90-year-old structure and replace it with a similarly designed bridge got a big boost this week: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $67 billion transportation funding bill, which includes a $900,000 appropriation for the project.
Cambridge officials said Friday that they are scrambling to get construction under way next year for a new Second Avenue bridge before the state of Minnesota in 2013 is scheduled to tear down and rebuild the neighboring Highway 95 bridge, which also spans the Rum River. The total cost of the Second Avenue project is estimated at $2.5 million.
Read more at Finance & Commerce.
Photo by Bill Klotz, Finance & Commerce.
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