Then and now: Maple Street Bridge
The Maple Street Bridge, which opened to traffic on July 1, 1958, is 1,716 feet long, towering 125 feet above the Spokane River, and its road surface is 50 feet wide, plus a 5-foot-wide pedestrian path on the southbound side.
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1958 - Cars and drivers line up to be the first over the new Maple Street Bridge. The bridge took 40 percent of the traffic off the busy Monroe Street Bridge after it opened. A toll was charged to cars until 1990.
The Spokesman-Review Photo Archive Sr
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The northbound on-ramp curves onto the Maple Street Bridge, shown Tuesday, March 26, 2019. With a 40-mph speed limit on the bridge, cars merging into bridge traffic have caused several accidents over the years.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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