Title: St. Croix River bridge project now halfway finished - StarTribune.com
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Birth of a bridge: St. Croix River project now halfway finished
On both sides of St. Croix River, residents wait to see the impact.
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Birth of a bridge: St. Croix River project now halfway finished
On both sides of St. Croix River, residents wait to see the impact. By Kevin Giles  and David Peterson Star Tribune
April 15, 2015 — 9:33am
ELIZABETH FLORES • eflores@startribune.com
The $646 million St. Croix bridge is projected to carry 80,000 vehicles within 20 years, stretching the boundaries of the metro area into rural Wisconsin. Text size
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Barges soon will float massive concrete spans, each weighing more than some commercial airliners, to the new St. Croix River bridge two miles south of Stillwater. From there, cranes will drop them into place to form Minnesota’s newest link to Wisconsin. In coming months, hundreds of sightseers on excursion boats will look on with interest at the completion of a bridge that’s already transforming a woodsy river valley by its colossal size. Never has a public works project put its stamp so dramatically on the nationally protected river: