Tank: Rotting Traffic Bridge could have served as monument to neglect

The punitive P3 contract enforcing strict deadlines for Saskatoon’s rebuilt Traffic Bridge suggests the span will reopen less than a year from now. 
Traffic will once again flow between the Nutana neighbourhood and downtown Saskatoon as it had for 103 years before the city’s first bridge built for automobiles closed for good in 2010.
What if city hall had decided to leave the condemned bridge where it was, though, in all its rotting, decrepit glory?
That would not have done