Post Street Bridge

2018 - The city has selected a company to design and build a new Post Street Bridge for a cost of $13.5 million.

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Wed., March 28, 2018

The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane is now reduced to a single lane of traffic and pedestrians only because of deterioration of supports and the reinforcing rod inside. Plans are being made to replace the 1937 bridge.

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The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane is now reduced to a single lane of one-way traffic and pedestrians only. Plans are being made to replace the bridge, built in 1917 and widened in the mid-1930s.

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The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane is now reduced to a single lane of traffic and pedestrians only because of deterioration of supports and the reinforcing rod inside. Plans are being made to replace the 1937 bridge.

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The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane, stamped 1937, is now reduced to a single lane of traffic and pedestrians only. Plans are being made to replace the 1937 bridge.

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The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane is now reduced to a single lane of traffic and pedestrians only. Plans are being made to replace the 1937 bridge.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane is now reduced to a single lane of traffic and pedestrians only. Plans are being made to replace the 1937 bridge.

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People run across the Post Street bridge during 1981 Bloomsday.

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Arches of the dominant Monroe street bridge and the Post Street Bridge embraced the Spokane River in 1974.

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The Post Street bridge was one of the original bridges over the Spokane River. The wooden structure was rebuilt in 1917 and widened in 1937. A Washington Water Power company building is shown on the right.

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Looking down at Post Street bridge and water over dam in 1938.

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Building the Post Street Bridge in 1936.

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A train crosses the Spokane river, along side the Post Street bridge in 1936.

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