35W bridge memorial gets $1.5 million push
Now backed by $1.5 million from a legal settlement announced Monday, a planned memorial for the victims and survivors of the I-35W bridge collapse finds itself with more funding than expected. And after months of secrecy, final plans could be presented to the public in as few as three weeks.
The "Remembrance Garden," honoring the 13 dead and 145 injured, would likely be the most expensive memorial in the state -- costing more than any war memorial at the State Capitol -- while commemorating what one attorney called "the greatest manmade catastrophe our state has ever seen."
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Firm to pay $52M in I-35W bridge collapse
A 14-hour negotiating session Saturday yielded a settlement with engineering giant URS that survivors call “bittersweet.”
Families react to 35W bridge settlementSuit over 35W bridge contract will go to state Supreme Court
Suit over bridge contract will go to state Supreme Court.
Remnants of the 35W bridge come home
The NTSB had taken some 35W bridge parts to the East Coast for study, but those remnants have been returned for storage in a 5,000-square-foot warehouse in Oakdale.
Gail Rosenblum, columnist
Two years after the bridge fell, let's resist urge to just 'move on'
Alison Howland and Nancy Hovanes leaned forward on the railing of the Stone Arch Bridge at just past 6 p.m. Saturday and studied the new Interstate 35W bridge. They came, Howland said, "to honor the people who were affected by this major event in Minneapolis history."
35W beam failed first, lawyer says
Engineers hired by attorneys for 117 survivors and relatives of victims in the bridge disaster disagree with the NTSB and say the collapse was preventable.
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More 35W Bridge stories
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- America celebrates another I-35W hero
- I-35W bridge tragedy may yield new rules
- NTSB findings don't end political debate over bridge
- NTSB's final bridge report due today
- Skeptical or accepting, survivors are listening
- NTSB to review 35W bridge report
- NTSB bridge findings already criticized
- 179 claims filed for bridge collapse victim fund
- Coming together to remember
- Kids on bus express feelings with a mural
- Readers share their memories: We can't forget
- One year after: Remembering, rebuilding
- Aug. 1: Our bridges: To do nothing will cost more
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Thirteen people died and hundreds of lives were changed the day the I-35W bridge fell. Hear the many stories of survival as part of our interactive presentation that shows where the cars were and who was in them.
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The family that fell: The Coulters
After the I-35W bridge crumbled beneath the Coulter family's car, the family was plucked from the wreckage and scattered, one by one. All four were hurt, with Paula Coulter one of the most critically injured of all the victims. It's been nearly five months, but for them, normalcy is still a long way off.
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Audio
- Audio: 911 calls from the bridge
- Audio: Transportation funding argument gets heated
- Audio: Molnau talks about seeing the bridge for the first time
- Audio: Lisa Jolstad: The waiting is the hardest part
- Audio: Father describes Jessie's ordeal
- Audio: Remembering Sherry Engebretsen
- Audio: Congressman Oberstar tours bridge site
- Audio: Bridge collapse survivor Gary Babineau
- Audio: Police captain says families grieving, appreciative
- Audio: Friends remember Patrick Holmes
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I-35W bridge collapse:
Shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday, August 1, the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed.
Minnesota bridges rated
An interactive map showing 350 bridges that are either "structurally deficient," "functionally obsolete" or are being reinspected because they use gusset plates similar to those on the I-35W bridge.
All I-35W bridge graphics
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- St. Croix River Crossing is an albatross
- Letter of the Day (Jan. 7): Is bridge valuable only to who need to cross?
- Minneapolis lawyer is charged in feud over court dates
- 35W noise walls cause clamor in southeast Minneapolis
- 'O,' dear: Thieves target park's sign
- Preferred public works contractors get scrutiny
- Army Corps finishing the hole job
