{"id":7776,"date":"2016-08-10T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2016-08-05T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T05:09:26","slug":"us-63-mississippi-river-bridge-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/us-63-mississippi-river-bridge-to-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"US 63 Mississippi River bridge to be replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7777\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/US63MSbridge.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/US63MSbridge.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/US63MSbridge-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 25, 2016:<\/strong> The US 63 Mississippi River crossing, officially known as the Eisenhower Bridge, as seen from a marina on the Wisconsin side.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In unintentional conjunction with the US 54 bridge blog post, &#8220;my highway&#8221; is going to get a new Mississippi River crossing too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/d6\/projects\/redwing-bridge\/\">Construction on a new bridge for US 63<\/a> at Red Wing MN, which crosses above US 61 and the river entering Wisconsin, will start next year. The new bridge will be built right by the old one.<\/p>\n<p>This means that three superstructured bridges on the Upper Mississippi River \u2014 US 52, US 54, and US 63 \u2014 will be replaced in a five-year span (2016-20). The 63 bridge is by far the newest of the three, opening days before the election of 1960.<\/p>\n<p>John A. Weeks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnweeks.com\/river_mississippi\/pagesA\/umissA01.html\">has an extensive photo gallery<\/a> of the 63 bridge, including some taken from the bluff overlooking Red Wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 25, 2016: The US 63 Mississippi River crossing, officially known as the Eisenhower Bridge, as seen from a marina on the Wisconsin side. In unintentional conjunction with the US 54 bridge blog post, &#8220;my highway&#8221; is going to get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/us-63-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-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","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=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}