{"id":15920,"date":"2025-06-09T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15920"},"modified":"2025-06-05T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:05:57","slug":"on-the-lightline-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/on-the-lightline-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"On the LightLine Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/the-lightline-a-bridge-to-somewhere\">My Substack column for May 3<\/a> questions the utility of the Alliant Energy LightLine bridge south of downtown Cedar Rapids once its original goal, using part of the abandoned Rock Island Railroad bridge, turned out to be infeasible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/the-lightline-a-bridge-to-somewhere\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15921\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/substack_lightline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/substack_lightline.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/substack_lightline-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/substack_lightline-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Substack column for May 3 questions the utility of the Alliant Energy LightLine bridge south of downtown Cedar Rapids once its original goal, using part of the abandoned Rock Island Railroad bridge, turned out to be infeasible.<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920","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=15920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15922,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions\/15922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}