{"id":15314,"date":"2023-12-15T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15314"},"modified":"2023-12-10T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T02:07:30","slug":"fort-madison-railroad-bridge-toll-going-up-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/fort-madison-railroad-bridge-toll-going-up-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Madison railroad bridge toll going up \u2014 twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/Dec06\/EndIL9W.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>December 18, 2006:<\/strong> The approach to the BNSF Fort Madison bridge as seen from the Illinois side.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iowa&#8217;s second-oldest existing bridge across the Mississippi River is going to cost more to cross.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge at Fort Madison, the only toll bridge on Iowa&#8217;s east side, isn&#8217;t state-owned. It&#8217;s part of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Even when this location was the east end of IA 2, the bridge technically marked the end of that route.<\/p>\n<p>The toll for cars went from $1 to $2 on March 1, 2012, a <a href=\"https:\/\/khqa.com\/news\/local\/tolls-going-up-on-fort-madison-bridge\">KHQA story from that year<\/a> said. Radio Iowa reports that on Jan. 1, the toll will go to $3. WGEM adds that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgem.com\/2023\/12\/04\/toll-increase-planned-fort-madison-bridge\/\">the toll will go to $4<\/a> on Jan. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 18, 2006: The approach to the BNSF Fort Madison bridge as seen from the Illinois side. Iowa&#8217;s second-oldest existing bridge across the Mississippi River is going to cost more to cross. The bridge at Fort Madison, the only toll &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/fort-madison-railroad-bridge-toll-going-up-twice\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314","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=15314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15315,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314\/revisions\/15315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}