{"id":11280,"date":"2019-08-29T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:17:39","slug":"new-mississippi-river-bridge-in-louisiana-no-not-that-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/new-mississippi-river-bridge-in-louisiana-no-not-that-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mississippi River bridge in Louisiana (no not that Louisiana)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJuly 12, 2016:<\/strong>\u00a0The now-former US 54 bridge across the Mississippi River, whose replacement was built right beside it.<\/em><\/p>\n

My string of unbroken Mississippi River crossings was clipped on Aug. 3 when a replacement for the US 54 Champ Clark Bridge opened at Louisiana, Missouri. Story: St. Louis Post-Dispatch.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>This is the only crossing between Alton and Hannibal.<\/p>\n

The next replacement across the Father of Waters will be an easy one to get, the I-74 Bridge in the Quad Cities. But also by the end of next year, US 63 will have a new span<\/a> at Red Wing, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

It’s debatable among hard-core roadgeeks, or at least me, if one bridge built right beside the other counts as a lost clinch. I can still probably say that I’ve traveled the highways in question unbroken. But when we’re talking major projects, like these \u2014 or the $6.4 billion San Francisco Bay Bridge replacement<\/a> that did slightly relocate I-80 over the bay \u2014 there’s a “specialness” factor that doesn’t come into a little concrete span over a smaller body of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 12, 2016:\u00a0The now-former US 54 bridge across the Mississippi River, whose replacement was built right beside it. My string of unbroken Mississippi River crossings was clipped on Aug. 3 when a replacement for the US 54 Champ Clark Bridge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","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=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12115,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}