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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Work has begun on the first of two Inner Belt bridges. ODOT's plan calls for the new span to handle trac by late 2013 and be finished in 2014.

It will carry six lanes of traffic -- four westbound, two eastbound -- as the existing Inner Belt Bridge is demolished and a new one is built in its place by 2016.

The first new bridge will then handle westbound traffic while the second carries drivers headed east. The twin viaducts will be built to last 100 years -- twice the lifespan of the current bridge.

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