Rotting New York bridge set to be torn down.
The 80-year-old Champlain Bridge, closed suddenly last month after the state found the concrete piers were rotting, is on the verge of collapse and too far gone to be saved, officials in New York and Vermont said Monday.
There is “no choice but to tear down the dangerously deteriorated bridge” and replace it, said Gov. David Paterson.
The state Department of Transportation has released no budget for a new bridge, although the office of state Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury, has indicated the project could cost $50 million.
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