AUSTIN, Minn.-The City of Austin held a ribbon cutting for the bridge on Fourth Street Northwest in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Transportation and Austin Area Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday, Nov. 20.

The event was meant to celebrate the bridge's planned reopening on Friday, which will allow traffic from Interstate-90 easier access to many local businesses.

According to Tyler Hoff, president of the Worlein-Hoff Funeral Home, the detours associated with the project lengthened funeral processions he had to organize heading to graveyards in the southern part of town.

He says neighboring businesses like SuperFresh and Angry Hog Brewery and Taproom saw decreased traffic during construction.

"We've been very lucky to have great community support throughout all of it and e

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