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I happened across the web site that TDOT has set up for the dissemination of news about the Market Street Bridge project this morning. Said web site has a scanned copy of an article from the News-Free Press from 1985 discussing the bridge’s history. What I find most interesting is that the article opens by noting that TDOT had recently decreed that the bridge would need to be replaced. Apparently, Chattanooga residents didn’t like that idea, and here, twenty years down the road, the bridge is being renovated so that it can (hopefully) serve us for another eighty years or so.

I’m glad sanity prevailed and we still have the bridge with us. Not only is it cool and beautiful … it has significant historical value. I only hope that we will see the value in other historical truss bridges in this state, like the Marion Memorial Bridge, and save them as well …
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