There’s still no firm date for the closure of the Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River in Lansing, but we have another clue.
The PBS Wisconsin show “Here & Now” has a 4-minute story about the closure and says it will happen in October. (Whoever typed up the story for online publication misspelled New Albin.)
KCRG has a story from the Lansing side and how businesses are worried about what will happen.
At the time construction began, it was expected that the bridge would remain open until the new bridge opened in the fall of 2026. Now, due to repeated stress on the nearly 100-year-old bridge piers as much deeper ones are drilled for the new bridge, the bridge has to close and the new one won’t be open until sometime in 2027.
For more detailed information from the engineering angle, read this story from Engineering News Record.