Crews dismantle bridge to prepare for blasting

Friday, July 9, 2004

Drivers traveling the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge lately might have noticed traffic is picking up on the old Mississippi River bridge several hundred feet up river. But no one on the 76-year-old bridge these days is just trying to get across.

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