My recent cocktail cruise on the Mississippi River brought me pretty close to the brand new 35W Bridge.

The bridge, which collapsed a year ago on August 1, 2007, re-opened just last week, on Thursday, September 18, 2008.

It’s amazing to me that in just a little over one years’ time, they were able to clean up the mess and rebuild the bridge while various other road construction projects in the metro drag on and on and on.

And on and on and on.

Nonetheless, here’s to the brand new bridge.