Hot Dam Hoover Dam Bridge Takes Shape

摘要

Dam Bypass Bridge will now finish in late 2010 instead of June 2008 due to the collapse last year of a giant cableway system under 55-mph winds. The 1,960-ft-long, 88-ft-wide arched bridge was already postponed a year because of the two-year delay in passing SAFETEA-LU, the federal transportation bill. In 2004, however, Arizona and Nevada each pledged 50 million dollars in bonds to keep the project moving. The fallen cableway system was critical to shuttling materials between Nevada and Arizona 780 ft above the Colorado River. The project was about 40 percent complete at the time of the incident.