CLEVELAND, Ohio – A significant piece of Cleveland’s vast bridge history is coming down – but not as soon as expected.
The Eagle Avenue lift bridge – closed to vehicles for 20 years but still hovering 97 feet above the Cuyahoga River as one of the iconic symbols of Cleveland’s industrial Flats – was scheduled to be lowered onto barges this winter and disassembled by the summer.
But that work will now take place a year later, the result of a December request from the city of Cleveland to keep the river open to water traffic this winter, an Ohio Department of Transportation spokesperson said…