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Apr 15, 2021
Reed & Reed crews slid in the new bridge (left) after demolishing the old one within 84 hours as part of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation s first bridge-slide project.
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New Hampshire Department of Transportation has rolled in big temporary bridges before, and it s even jacked up some large bridges. But we ve never actually demolished a large bridge and slid a new one in in three and a half days, said Jim Bowles, NHDOT district construction engineer, a few years ago in an agency video.
That changed after the agency decided for the first time to use lateral bridge slides to quickly replace two deteriorated bridges. (A time-lapse video of the largest of the bridge slides is at the end of this article. Read on for more details about the project.)
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