In reply to Reuben Collins.

In an earlier article I mentioned the city of Stillwater at one point demanded the bridge be closed if they weren't going to build a new one- obviously they were on the same page with me that the benefits of downtown to having it open in it's present form were less than the benefits of closing it. The Hudson Bridge and near I-494 / I-694 are very close to capacity, I don't know how much it would cost to expand them, but obviously a lot less than $360 million. But ultimately no one that had the power to was willing to just close it the lift bridge, so without building a new one we'd have the status quo until the old bridge finally wore out and fell into the river.