Crime & Safety
Stillwater Lift Bridge Repairs Complete, Reopens For Rush Hour
On Tuesday, after the bridge stalled for the second time, workers had to be lowered from the lift span by a bucket truck.
STILLWATER, MN — Crews from the Minnesota Department of Transportation completed electrical repairs shortly after 4:30 a.m. Thursday morning and the bridge has been reopened to traffic. Workers labored overnight to install a new main power cable on the bridge to replace a cable that burned out on Tuesday and stalled the bridge mid-lift.
The normal lift schedule also will resume at 8 a.m. Thursday morning, according to a news release.
A malfunction in an electrical meter socket that monitors power usage at the Stillwater Lift Bridge failed at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday and caused the bridge to stop about 30 feet above the water, 3/4 of the way up.
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The bridge again stalled just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday about halfway up during testing after the electric meter socket was repaired. Workers had to be lowered from the lift span by bucket truck. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Minnesota Patch, click here to find your local Minnesota Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)
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