Duluth's Blatnik Bridge will be rebuilt, likely to feature new Wisconsin connector Instead, it will be a full replacement beginning in 2028, with construction lasting five or six years.

The Blatnik Bridge opened in 1961, and carries Interstate 535 between the Twin Ports. It is unique for the way it rises 120 feet above Superior Bay, allowing clearance for lake freighter traffic.

The Blatnik Bridge connecting Duluth and Superior, Wis., has stood for 60 years but will be replaced and reconfigured in 2028. (Alex Kormann, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The Blatnik Bridge reconstruction project is estimated to cost nearly one billion dollars, however, the goal is to have federal grants pay half of the costs. Matt Baumbgartner, ...

The Blatnik Bridge project is targeted to begin in 2028. To hear Hill talk, there’s a lot of proverbial water to be crossed before he can discuss Blatnik’s future with certainty.

The Blatnik Bridge connecting Duluth and Superior, Wis., has stood for 60 years, but a long-range plan would reconfigure the span and its feeder arteries.

Pat Hustom, the Blatnik Bridge Reconstruction Project Director with MnDOT, says most of their jobs are design-bid-build. However, with fixing the half-century-old bridge, the reconstruction will ...

The Department of Transportation has awarded over $1B in federal funding to replace the aging John A. Blatnik Bridge between Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin.

The Blatnik Bridge is also an essential economic engine in the region and a key link in the global supply chain. Each year, 265,000 trucks transporting nearly $4 billion in goods pass over the bridge.

President Joe Biden speaks with iron workers and others near the John A. Blatnik Bridge on Jan. 25 in Superior, Wisconsin. Biden announced $5 billion in federal funding for upgrading the Blatnik ...

A project to replace the 60-year-old Blatnik Bridge on Interstate 535 that connects Superior to Duluth will receive over $1 billion in funding long sought by Minnesota and Wisconsin officials ...