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3 unusual facts about Jamestown Bridge


Jamestown Bridge

The roadway deck through the cantilevered span was an open steel-grid deck, similar to that of the Castleton Bridge just south of Albany, NY or the now demolished Sikorsky Bridge on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut.

On April 18, 2006, the main span of the Jamestown Bridge was brought down by 75 pounds of RDX explosives and 350 shaped charges.

TNT charges were later used to remove the concrete piers.



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