National Briefing - Midwest - Minnesota - Rebuilt Bridge Opens - NYTimes.com Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis. Hundreds of vehicles had lined up on both sides, some waiting hours for the bridge to open a few minutes after 5 a.m. Then they inched, bumper to bumper, onto the new $234 million, 10-lane span. The old bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River on Aug. 1, 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. Some drivers were jubilant about the new span, but others were hesitant. One survivor of the collapse said he would wait a couple of days before trying out the rebuilt bridge. The man, Andy Gannon, 39, an insurance salesman from Apple Valley, Minn., who cascaded 42 feet in his new silver Chrysler Pacifica and landed on a river road, dangling on an embankment, said he was afraid to drive with the cluster of commuters. Instead, Mr. Gannon said he would drive on the new bridge on Saturday morning to finish the trip he started on the day of the collapse: to attend the wake of a co-worker's father at the Roseville Memorial Chapel. For me, it has to happen. I didn't complete where I was supposed to go," he said. "I'm going to cross that bridge, go to the church, sit in the parking lot for just a second or so and consider my journey done."CHRISTINA CAPECCHI