A car ferry moves people and vehicles between Lansing, Iowa and Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, but business owners say they still are feeling the effects of the closure of the Black Hawk Bridge, a year and a half before the replacement bridge is set to open.
The population of Lansing may have doubled Friday morning as the community and onlookers watched a planned implosion of the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River.
Watch as the 94-year old Black Hawk Bridge in Lansing, Iowa is impoded by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.
The implosion of the Black Hawk Bridge, a structure that for 94 years has provided transportation over the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa, has been delayed one day by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.
The 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa will meet its end this month in a planned implosion that’s being coordinated by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.
Two weeks after the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge was closed permanently — and more than a year until the new bridge will open — a car ferry began service Monday, transporting motorists, pedestrians and others across the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa.
The Black Hawk Bridge across the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa will close for good Monday morning — more than a year before its replacement is scheduled to open.
Black Hawk Bridge, a historic structure that links Lansing, Iowa, and western Wisconsin over the Mississippi River, will be demolished later this year, more than a year before construction of a replacement bridge is scheduled to be completed.
The Iowa 9/Wisconsin 82 bridge over the Mississippi River between Lansing and Crawford County Wisconsin reopened Monday. The bridge was closed May 17 after sensors detected movement in the bridge. A two-week closure is expected later this summer to help facilitate construction of a new bridge.
The historic Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River at Lansing is closed again after sensors detected it was swaying too much, forcing drivers who need to cross the river to detour at least 70 miles out their way to take other bridges instead.
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Retailers and commuters cope while the Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River is temporary closed.
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