Implosion brings end to life of 77-year old steel truss bridge.
A Louisiana bridge is no more. Demolition experts imploded the 77-year-old U.S. 190 bridge connecting Livingston and East Baton Rouge parishes on Wednesday.
The center span collapsed right on target into the Amite River. The Louisiana State Police Emergency Services Unit and the Department of Transportation and Development regulated the explosion.
The rusting, steel truss bridge had to be demolished because it was in the path of a new bridge for eastbound traffic being built across the river, said Dustin Annison of the state Department of Transportation and Development, The Advocate reported.
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