Mathews Bridge is a piece of CRAP!!! It does us no good being closed everyday or every other day. I say blow it up and start over. The millions we have been wasting on just barely keeping it up could have gone towards a fund to build a new one. Just like Jacksonville to cheap out and not get an engineer to do the work. Naw lets just send these contractors up there to do bridge maintenance. I do not know who makes these decisions for Jacksonville but they are retarded. I'm sure it is all about money as I can imagine bridges are quite expensive but since the 1950's when it was built I wonder how much has been spent on maintenance??? I think it would probably end up close to the cost of a new bridge.