To spectators, the 10-hour lift of a 528-ft-wide, 2,650-ton steel-truss-span assembly that is part of the Huey P. Long Bridge widening project may have seemed like watching paint dry, says John ...

This sort of bridge can be installed faster, and with less traffic disruption, than a steel-truss bridge identical to the 1955-vintage span that crashed Thursday when a truck’s overheight load ...