{"id":15167,"date":"2023-09-20T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:37:41","slug":"kenyon-road-bridges-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/kenyon-road-bridges-to-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyon Road bridges to be replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nExcerpt from the Iowa State Highway Commission’s blueprints for “650′ continuous steel frame overhead crossing,” over what’s now South 7th Street, dated 1934. The Kenyon Road bridge(s) opened in 1936-37. Before that, US 20 crossed the Des Moines River on a viaduct heading northeast from the intersection of G Street and Avenue C.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two historic bridges in Fort Dodge are going to be replaced in a yearlong project. Next year, the other bridges will get overlays, and the invisible remaining parts of IA 926<\/a> will be gone.<\/p>\n

Work to demolish and replace the westbound bridges of Kenyon Road across the Des Moines River and South 7th Street starts today (Sept. 20), the Fort Dodge Messenger<\/em> reports<\/a>. As you can see in the Messenger’s<\/em> pictures and on Google Street View<\/a>, while it might look like two bridges from the top, and even feel like one bridge because the in-between portion is on raised ground, it’s very visibly four bridges underneath.<\/p>\n

One of the bridges being replaced was named the Herring Viaduct after the governor of Iowa who was in office at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from the Iowa State Highway Commission’s blueprints for “650′ continuous steel frame overhead crossing,” over what’s now South 7th Street, dated 1934. The Kenyon Road bridge(s) opened in 1936-37. Before that, US 20 crossed the Des Moines River on … 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167","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=15167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15187,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15167\/revisions\/15187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}