1922 bridge facts

* Work began in 1920

* Completed Sept. 1922

* Cost $1.375 million

* Length 2,550 feet

* Two four-foot sidewalks

* Deck width (including sidewalk), 38 feet

* Traffic count, estimated 2,570 vehicles/day

* Materials, 2,800 tons steel, 467 tons concrete, 80,000 rivets

* Workers, 200-plus

2008 bridge facts

* Work began June 2006

* Cost $49.5 million (not including utilities, right-of-way, engineering)

* Length, 2,369 feet

* One 10-foot sidewalk

* Deck width (including sidewalk), 84 feet, eight inches

* Traffic count, estimated

at 15,000 vehicles/per day

* Materials, 5,471 tons of steel

* 38,946 tons of concrete

* 21,000 bolts

* Workers, core crew between 14 and 40 per day, plus subcontractors

Bismarck Tribune – Bismarck News – Bridge going out with a burn, not a bang.