Highway officials open exit ramp off restructured LR bridge

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(AP) – Arkansas highway officials have reopened a ramp off
Little Rock’s Broadway Bridge that had been closed since last year.Southbound drivers can now enter westbound Arkansas 10 without having to go
through a part of downtown Little Rock. The exit was ready last week but Little
Rock city officials asked that its re-opening be delayed until after a downtown
festival wrapped up Sunday night.

The state tore down the previous Broadway Bridge that was deemed structurally
deficient and replaced it with a $98.4 million span this spring. A pedestrian
walkway along the span is expected to open this summer.

Last October, demolition teams using explosives failed in their first attempt
to bring down the 93-year-old span. Parts of the bridge fell against each other,
and not into the Arkansas River.

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