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Atlanta’s Courtland Street Bridge to reopen Monday

The Courtland Street Bridge passes through Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta.
The Courtland Street Bridge passes through Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta.
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Oct 2, 2018

The Georgia Department of Transportation will reopen Atlanta's Courtland Street Bridge on Monday.

The 111-year-old downtown bridge has been closed Gilmer Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive since May while GDOT built a new span. The $25 million project used some of the same accelerated bridge construction that allowed the agency to reopen a collapsed section of I-85 in just six weeks last year.

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