{"id":7744,"date":"2016-08-09T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2016-08-05T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T05:09:15","slug":"us-54-mississippi-river-bridge-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/us-54-mississippi-river-bridge-to-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"US 54 Mississippi River bridge to be replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7799\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MOUS54Bridge.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MOUS54Bridge.jpg 580w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MOUS54Bridge-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 12, 2016:<\/strong> The US 54 bridge across the Mississippi River, from Louisiana, Missouri.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not Iowa news, but &#8220;this is going to affect my plans to have every Mississippi River bridge crossed between St. Paul and Memphis&#8221; news:<\/p>\n<p><em>State and local officials for the twin Pike Counties in Missouri and Illinois were thrilled last week [early July -ed.] when it was announced that funding has been secured for <a href=\"http:\/\/thepeoplestribune.com\/?p=29715\">replacement of the Champ Clark Bridge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Eastern District Pike County Commissioner Curt Mitchell said he was very pleased with the decision and noted that it took the dedication of many elected officials to make the project a priority. He added that he spoke with an official from MoDOT\u2008on Monday who confirmed the project completion goal is November of 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>US 54 is the only river crossing between Hannibal and the St. Louis area. The new bridge will be built right beside the old one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 12, 2016: The US 54 bridge across the Mississippi River, from Louisiana, Missouri. Not Iowa news, but &#8220;this is going to affect my plans to have every Mississippi River bridge crossed between St. Paul and Memphis&#8221; news: State and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/us-54-mississippi-river-bridge-to-be-replaced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","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=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}