Multiple Bridges Reopen or Set to Reopen

Bridges across North America are reopening or scheduled to reopen after rehabilitation projects or emergency closures that disrupted local traffic and commerce. Saskatoon’s Broadway Bridge, closed since May for major rehabilitation by Julmac Contracting Ltd., is expected to reopen by the end of the week (possibly Friday) with a reconfigured Fourth Avenue/19th Street intersection while some substructure work continues. Webster, N.H.’s 1939 Clothespin Bridge is set to open by the end of November after a roughly $3.7 million rehabilitation largely funded by a 2021 Infrastructure and Jobs Act grant and state bridge program support. Pennsylvania’s historic Black Rock Road bridge reopened a month early following state-funded repairs and now carries about 8,000 vehicles per day. Arkansas’s one-lane Little Golden Gate (Beaver) Bridge is set to reopen after a planned stringer retrofit, restoring the town’s sole road route with no further closures scheduled. In Baton Rouge the I‑10 Mississippi River Bridge was closed more than eight hours when a man climbed the superstructure; law enforcement resolved the incident, lanes were reopened early the next morning with traffic diverted to U.S. Highway 190, and barge traffic near La Crosse has also resumed after a separate, nearly 48-hour disruption.