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kpitcher
05-16-2017, 11:24 PM
Expecting thousands of cars backed up during the annual bridge walk event, which typically keeps it partially open to traffic.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/16/mackinac-bridge-walk-road-closure/325536001/



The bridge will be closed from 6:30 a.m. to noon to all traffic, leaving an estimated 4,000 drivers stranded on either side of the bridge on one of the busiest traffic days of the year.

The action was taken at the request of the Michigan State Police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which are responding to threats posed by terrorists using vehicles to plow into crowds to inflict the most possible damage.