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Great River Bridge (Westfield)
The Great River Bridge in Westfield, Massachusetts, is a pair of camelback truss spans over the Westfield River carrying . The original bridge was completed in 1939, and a second bridge was finished in 2009.
==History==
Begun after a flood in 1938 and completed the next year, the original bridge was the main north-south crossing of the river for seventy years.
With time, however, the span became a bottleneck that figuratively split the city. Starting no later than the 1970s, people started talking about taking some sort of action, and the result was the construction of a similar bridge downstream of the original, begun in 2007.〔 The new bridge opened for traffic and the old one was closed for renovation on August 18, 2009. The area surrounding was improved with new sidewalks, lights, and pavement. The upstream (1938) bridge carries three lanes of southbound traffic, and the downstream (2007) bridge carries three lanes northbound. A small park lies between the approaches on both sides of the river.
One previous constraint was a low rail bridge to the north of the original span, which required trucks to take a circuitous route to get across the river. This bridge was replaced by a new one just south of the original, but still north of the original river crossing, with more elevation so that trucks could access the southbound (upstream) span.〔
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