A piece of Puyallup history is being demolished this week.
“Say goodbye but plan for a ‘hello there!’ to the historic, 100-year-old SR 167 Puyallup River Bridge,” the Washington State Department of Transportation wrote in a blog post Wednesday. “The bridge, sometimes called the Meridian Street Bridge, is going to be demolished beginning Wednesday, July 9.”
In the post, WSDOT said they were demolishing the bridge to make room for the state Route 167 Completion Project. The demolition follows years of debate about the bridge’s future.
Why was the bridge important to Puyallup?
The bridge was built in 1925, according to the blog post, and connected Puyallup to the greater Tacoma area…