Memorial Bridge CLOSED to Cars

This news isn't so fresh. This happened like a week ago. The Memorial Bridge is the span across the Piscataqua River that connects low income service workers living in Maine, to their Portsmouth jobs. It's an old "through truss lift" bridge, completed in 1923, painted institutional green, and rusting away to dust ever since. The Memorial Bridge was inspected last week and shut down to automobile traffic immediately.. It's that f'd up. Lucky for two wheelers and walkers, it is still passable by bike or on foot. There is something really free feeling about being on a bridge without cars.
Word is the bridge will open in 3 weeks. But so far I have seen no work having started on repairs. I'm sure it involves going to the DOT and allocating funds, declaring a call for bids, accepting a bid.. yadda dadda ding dong.