{"id":10051,"date":"2018-06-22T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2018-06-19T22:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T03:54:48","slug":"save-tamas-lincoln-highway-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/save-tamas-lincoln-highway-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Tama&#8217;s Lincoln Highway bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10052\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TamaLHBridgePickup.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TamaLHBridgePickup.jpg 710w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TamaLHBridgePickup-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 7, 2013:<\/strong> A pickup crosses the Lincoln Highway bridge on the east end of Tama. Modern-day vehicles are one thing but a worse issue for the 103-year-old bridge is full-size semis using it on a truck route.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A century-plus after\u00a0the iconic Lincoln Highway bridge was built in Tama,\u00a087 years after US 30 was rerouted away from it, and 30 years after a major rehab project on the bridge, it is in trouble once again.<\/p>\n<p>The state has suggested removing and replacing the bridge, something preservationists hope to avoid, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/content\/news\/Our-Town-Tama-Toledo-Preserving-the-Lincoln-Highway-bridge-485877061.html\">KCRG reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not an easy solution. Ideally, a way can be found to keep the bridge intact and in use. But unless Fifth Street is closed to truck traffic, it&#8217;s going to be hard to keep it in place. If, IF, there would be a way to remove the sides of the bridge (the most important part obviously) intact, I can see that as an option, but relocation could be as tough a task as finding a way to leave it in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 7, 2013: A pickup crosses the Lincoln Highway bridge on the east end of Tama. Modern-day vehicles are one thing but a worse issue for the 103-year-old bridge is full-size semis using it on a truck route. A century-plus &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/save-tamas-lincoln-highway-bridge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}