News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
Ken Stanger, right, listens as WSDOT Region Administrator Dave Biershbach sites the through line Stanger had pointed out for a possible new bridge. Biershbach said he'd also thought about a different route starting at the other end of Columbia Avenue. Facing Biershbach is State Rep. Keith Goehner. Mayor Bob Poch is in front him looking over the river. - Scott Hunter photo
A group of people met in Coulee Dam Tuesday to start a discussion about someday replacing the bridge over the Columbia River on SR-155.
The current bridge, built in 1935, is half as wide, at 20 feet, as the state Department of Transportation would like - not to mention every truck driver who finds it necessary to wait for traffic before making an illegal wide swing into oncoming lanes to be able t...
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