Crews Begin Work On $75 Million Bridge ; the Span Replacing the Waldo-Hancock Bridge Will Be the Second of Its Kind in New England.

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Around noon today construction workers will finish a concrete marathon, 30-hours of non-stop pouring to create a foundation strong enough to support a 42-story tower. The hulking concrete block is the first piece of a new Penobscot River span that will replace the historic, but crumbling, Waldo-Hancock Bridge. Picture the Washington Monument, and you'll get a sense, engineers say, of what they will put on top of the foundation they're building this week.

When completed, the $75 million cable-stayed bridge connecting the Mid-Coast and Down East regions will have two towers that rise from the river's banks and sprout taut steel cables to hold up its roadway. It is expected to last up to 150 years.

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Crews Begin Work On $75 Million Bridge ; the Span Replacing the Waldo-Hancock Bridge Will Be the Second of Its Kind in New England.

This is only the second cable-stayed bridge to be built in New England, making it a rare engineering feat for those working on it. The first is the new Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, e...

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