Pawlenty to Decide on Bridge on Monday.

Governor Tim Pawlenty and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybeck will be meeting with construction officials and city officials on Monday to decide the actual date to open the I-35W Southbound bridge over the Mississippi river. The St. Anthony Falls bridge, as it is also known, will replace the bridge that collapsed on August 1, 2007 and killed 11 people. The new freeway bridge began to be constructed on November 1, 2007 and was slated to be finished Christmas Eve, 2008 but it may open as early as Tuesday, September 16th. The bridge will not have a walkover by the public since it is a freeway and no sidewalk is provided. The very important bridge will open with less fanfare than the usual within several days.