{"id":13694,"date":"2021-12-03T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13694"},"modified":"2021-12-02T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:59:08","slug":"new-i-74-bridge-fully-open-old-fully-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-i-74-bridge-fully-open-old-fully-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"New I-74 bridge fully open; old fully closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" style=\"border:1px solid #e6e6e6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/embeds\/video\/526-abad76ef-0e7d-4576-9a8b-7ef9aacc7c8d\/iframe\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people turned out for the grand opening of the I-74 bridge on Wednesday. (I, sadly, was not one of them.) The Illinois-bound span fully opened Thursday night, and the last lane in use on the 1959 bridge was shut down. Coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/qctimes.com\/news\/local\/spanning-the-ages-thousands-celebrate-the-new-i-74-bridges\/article_092259a9-e2b4-5053-b3b2-b9908197219d.html\">Quad-City Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourquadcities.com\/news\/local-news\/its-open-traffic-moves-both-ways-thursday-night-across-new-i-74-bridge\/\">WHBF<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/news\/local\/new-i-74-bridge-opening\/526-2341d69d-ad8c-4479-b656-5b24aa18229d\">WQAD<\/a> (Nov. 15), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/traffic\/life-long-quad-cities-residents-take-first-steps-new-bridge\/526-338ded50-bab3-4178-b9c5-fddf021720ed\">WQAD (Dec. 1) (above)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/traffic\/interstate-74-bridge-fully-open-to-drivers\/526-c671a7c8-c67d-4272-996b-728f8df485fb\">WQAD* (Dec. 2)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new bridge is supposed to last 100 years; to reach the longevity of the first two-lane span, it will need to be used through 2106.<\/p>\n<p>* It&#8217;s &#8220;set foot&#8221;, NOT &#8220;step foot&#8221;. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people turned out for the grand opening of the I-74 bridge on Wednesday. (I, sadly, was not one of them.) The Illinois-bound span fully opened Thursday night, and the last lane in use on the 1959 bridge was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-i-74-bridge-fully-open-old-fully-closed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694","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=13694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13697,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions\/13697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}