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Bridge overhaul on deck: $100 million Walt Whitman project will include new roadway.

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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20070726
Author:Colimore, Edward

Byline: Edward Colimore

Jul. 26--Beyond the barbed-wire-topped fences and heavy steel door was the Pennsylvania anchorage of the Walt Whitman Bridge, a towering, cavernous space filled with the steady hum of traffic passing more than 100 feet overhead.

Two engineers and a construction official took a tiny elevator to the underside of the span, then crossed a catwalk that shook from the weight of speeding cars and cargo-laden trucks only a few feet away.

To the untrained eye, the 50-year-old suspension bridge seemed sound enough. The Philadelphia-South Jersey landmark ...

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