Skinners Falls Bridge is “actively failing” and needs to be demolished, potentially with explosives, officials say
The Skinners Falls Bridge appears destined for an explosive ending akin to finale of the 1957 movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai.” Unlike the movie, which starred Sir Alec Guinness and told the story of World War II British POWs who were forced to construct a bridge for their Japanese captors, any explosive demolition…
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Skinners Falls Bridge is falling apart. Now it will be taken apart.
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