From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-563049-522652
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- Alaskan officials said they are willing to
pay $50,000 for the removal and safe keeping of a 59-year-old
Anchorage bridge.
Jim Amundsen, a project manager in highway design at the state
Department of Transportation, said the cost of moving and maintaining
the 100-foot-long Peters Creek bridge, which weighs about 50 tons
without its asphalt deck and about 150 tons with it, will likely be
far more than the state's offering, the Anchorage Daily News reported
Thursday.
Rich Pratt, chief bridge engineer with the department, said the
bridge, which runs over Peters Creek on the Old Glenn Highway, is
considered structurally deficient due to rust eating away at the
steel. He said about 20 percent of the bridges in the state fall in
the same category.
Amundsen said the bridge could wind up as a pedestrian overpass or
part of the public park.
"It has to be agencies or groups that legitimately have the ability to
take care of it and otherwise retain its cultural and historical
appearance and reasonable use," he said.