The new US 60 bridge was closed for about 20 minutes each time, once at 9 a.m. and again at 12:45 p.m. to allow explosive demolition of the final pieces of the old bridge structure on each side of the river.
The demolition contractor will use excavator-mounted jackhammers to break up the remaining sections of the concrete piers.
Some sections of the old piers will have to be retrieved from the river.
They were the last remaining sections of a structure that opened to traffic in 1931.
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KYTC video of demolition
