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March 22, 2017

Replacing Big Sur bridge to cost $20M, take nine months

  • One of the columns holding up Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge was pushed out by a landslide.
    • By KRISTIN J. BENDER and HAVEN DALEY
    The Associated Press

    AP Photo/Haven Daley [enlarge]
    Crews are tearing down the old span and will replace it with a single-span steel bridge across the canyon, which will not sit on the slide.

    BIG SUR, Calif. — Almost all the hotels, restaurants and state parks cut off when a bridge on the Central California coast crumbled last month remain closed, but Kurt Mayer chose to keep his deli and taproom open — even though it's costing him.


     
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