After spending more than $130 million in a decade of planning and analysis, the finally has settled on a bridge type. Governors John Kitzhaber and Chris Gregoire on Monday declared that the ...

State transportation officials will hold two listening sessions on March 10 regarding their proposed recommendation for a composite truss bridge design. The first will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at ...

The Interstate 35 bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis was a truss bridge, one of six main bridge types. Here's a quick look at the different types: A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected ...

Meet the new bridge. Same as the old bridge? Not quite. But on Friday, Oregon and Washington transportation officials recommended a deck truss bridge design for the Columbia River Crossing that is ...

The bistate Columbia River Crossing project has consumed $118 million without turning a single shovel full of dirt. What did we get for all that money? The Columbian requested all information related ...

Truss bridges have a long pedigree. The first ones were made of wood and erected in various European countries at least as early as the 16th century. Beginning in the late 1700s, many of them were ...

Corrections and clarifications: This story has been corrected to describe the pedestrian bridge as a truss design, despite its cosmetic appearance as a cable-stayed bridge. The central column and ...

The Florida International University pedestrian overpass that collapsed catastrophically during construction last week was advertised as a “cable-stayed” bridge, but it actually wasn’t: Instead, it ...