A broken bridge leaves an isolated Colorado community scrambling to save summer
Gunnison County residents have already felt the economic impacts from the U.S. 50 bridge closure over the Blue Mesa reservoir. Now a community reliant on summer tourism braces for more.
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It may be months before U.S. 50 is open to even a single lane of traffic over Blue Mesa
CDOT is about 40% through inspecting welds on the 1,500-foot-long bridge as the 87-mile gravel-road detour opens to trailers, commercial vehicles
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