Shawnee County Commissioner Shelly Buhler said Monday she was “really happy” the day had come that the deteriorating Willard Bridge was being closed after 62 years of use. That bridge was built to replace the old bridge that was taken out by the 1951 flood.
Concern about the bridge’s condition started in 2009, when a study said if one of the bridge’s eight steel pins failed, it would collapse without warning.
The replacement bridge, just east of the old bridge that was closed Monday, was started in Jan. 2016 and should be open in 90 days, said county public works director Tom Vlach
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