October 30, 2015: The northern of two 1915 bridges on M Avenue, border between Crystal and Perry townships, across Four Mile Creek (which is longer than that). The southern bridge is across Wolf Creek.
Hyper, hyper, hyper-local. — Ed.
Two century-old pony truss bridges on gravel M Avenue north of US 63 are scheduled to be replaced in 2018. Here’s coverage from last year about the approval of the five-year plan.
This has been on the Tama County supervisors’ plan for a while, and while I was waiting for it to get closer since project times can be moved, there’s another hook for this blog post: The two bridges are among the thousands marked in a nationwide interactive graphic from the Washington Post of structurally deficient bridges. Iowa had the most deficient bridges of any state in 2016, according to a report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (mentioned in a Council Bluffs Nonpareil article).