According to the digital edition of the Fall River Herald, Mayor Paul Coogan says it's time for the abandoned Brightman Street bridge to go away. Mayor Coogan called the old green bridge connecting Fall River to Somerset which opened in 1911 and ended in 2011 with the opening of the new Veterans Memorial Bridge "an eyesore," and "a bridge to nowhere."

The mayor said he's waiting for a response from the office of Governor Charlie Baker to a letter he sent last December, requesting that the Commonwealth demolish and remove the drawbridge.