Coming Down
Published 12:20 pm Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Employees of Morris Group of Birmingham, Ala., take out the last beam of the Washington Street bridge’s middle section 200 feet above Kansas City Southern Railway tracks. The 80-year-old Washington Street bridge at Clark Street began coming down Aug. 7 in preparation for its replacement by a roadway-topped rail tunnel expected to be completed by next summer. The span is the lone bridge along the main north-south corridor connecting downtown and Interstate 20, making its closure since January 2009 a problem for motorists and business owners along Washington Street. Kanzaa Construction of Tokepa, Kan., holds the $8.6 million contract for the project.