It was midday in Kansas City, Kansas, when residents in the city’s southeast corner heard a loud boom. Within seconds, tons of steel, that for 67 years held together a local bridge, cascaded into the waters of the Kansas River.
The Kansas Department of Transportation oversaw the demolition of the 18th Street Bridge on Thursday afternoon, pushing forward plans for the eventual replacement of a passageway that connects two neighborhoods, Armourdale and Argentine, over the Kaw.
“Update: The bridge has been successfully un-bridged,” the Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department wrote in a Facebook post Friday. “KCK handled the boom like pros.”…