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A modest crowd came out Sunday morning to see the explosion of another span of the historic Traffic Bridge.

The blast followed a larger explosion of two other spans attended by thousands last month.

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Sunday morning’s explosion shook the nearby Broadway Bridge, accompanied by a loud booming sound. As the smoke and dust cloud rose, a heavy burning smell wafted over the riverbank.

Jonathan Grilz, who came with his friend Daniel Stalker, said it was strange to see the explosion and then hear the delayed sound of the boom.

“It was pretty cool,” Grilz said.

Mervin Bashutski came to see the blast with Terence Horvath. Bashutski used to cross the traffic bridge regularly as a garbage truck driver. He remembered some harrowing crossings of the notoriously narrow bridge.

“You’d pass on there with another truck and sometimes the mirrors would tick each other,” he said.

Construction of the new bridge to replace it is expected to begin later this year.