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It’s official.
The Washington Bridge will be replaced.
The decision came Thursday afternoon from Governor McKee who had been waiting for engineers to complete a top to bottom analysis.
The Governor says that the bridge will be demolished in a competitive bid process.
He says that the winner of the bid will be announced by March of next year.
And then it will take between a year and a year and a half to build a new structure. It will take money.
And the governor says that demolishing and replacing the bridge will cost in the neighborhood of $250 to $300 million dollars.
And the Governor says the goal is to see the super structure opened in March of 2026.
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