On Sunday, the Moline anchorage to one of the bridge piers of the old I-74 bridge was blown up in an explosion. Stories and video: KWQC, WQAD.
The subject of the fourth and final demolition can be seen in this video from October, when there was a different controlled demolition. It’s the bigger hunk of concrete, which was shaved down to near river level before Sunday’s action.
*The thinner piers in the foreground of the October video will remain standing. “Some of the piers from the old bridge will remain in place due to federally protected mussels around them,” WQAD reported at that time.
The remaining I-74 bridge assembly joins a similar one for the Ak-Sar-Ben bridge on the Missouri River as reminders of transportation past.