Photos and video: Grand Avenue Bridge detour Day 1
- Traffic on Midland avenue moves slowly but surely during the first morning of the Grand Avenue Bridge detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Traffic on Midland avenue moves slowly but surely during the first morning of the Grand Avenue Bridge detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Traffic on Midland Avenue moves slowly but surely during the first morning of the Grand Avenue Bridge detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Traffic on Midland avenue moves slowly but surely during the first morning of the Grand Avenue Bridge detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Traffic on Midland avenue moves slowly but surely during the first morning of the Grand Avenue Bridge detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- The morning rush hour traffic on Midland Avenue near the West Midland pedestrian bridge. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- A bicyclist takes the Rio Grande Trail near the 8th Street Bridge Monday morning. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- The morning rush hour traffic on Midland Avenue near the West Midland pedestrian bridge. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Traffic backs up from the 8th and Midland intersection to the Glenwood Springs Community Center. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Destruction of the Grand Avenue Bridge begins early Monday morning. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- A bicyclist takes the Rio Grande Trail near the 8th Street Bridge Monday morning. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Traffic moves slowly on Midland in front of the Glenwood Springs Community Center. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self / Post Independent
- Crews on top of the old bridge use heavy equipment to cut the bridge into slabs to be hauled out of town. Photo by Ryan Summerlin / Post Independent
- Police Chief Terry Wilson is in the middle of the detour scramble, directing traffic at Eighth Street and Grand Avenue Monday morning. Photo by Ryan Summerlin / Post Independent
- Afternoon traffic backed up to Buffalo Valley around 4 p.m. on the first day of the Grand Avenue Bridge Detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self
- Traffic backed up to 23rd Street on South Grand Avenue to the 27th Street round-a-bout around 4 p.m. during the first day of the Grand Avenue Bridge Detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self
- Afternoon traffic backed up to Buffalo Valley around 4 p.m. on the first day of the Grand Avenue Bridge Detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self
- Emergency crews cleanup after 40 gallons of oil in a tipped over drum in truck near McDonalds in South Glenwood during the afternoon rush hour on day one of the 95 day Grand Avenue Bridge detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self
- If you’re in this afternoon line of traffic on 27th Street and don’t live on Midland Avenue south of 8th Street, or in south Glenwood or up Four Mile, you don’t belong here! Stay on the Grand Avenue/82 detour. Photo by PI Staff Photographer Chelsea Self
- Commuters travel through an intersection on the southend of town.
- Traffic from the Grand Avenue Bridge detour has been a deterrent for retail sales and dining.
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