The Mississippi River Bridge from Lansing into Wisconsin shut down for good Monday so work can progress on the new bridge.
DOT engineer Clayton Burke says the plan is to drop the east and middle sections of the bridge with explosives.
Burke says they expect the implosion sometime in mid-December. He says they will have to manually take the Iowa portion of the bridge down it’s over a roadway and a railroad, and next to houses. The Lansing bridge was closed temporarily a few times due to movement that is believed to be linked to work on the nearby new bridge. Burke says they believe they can implode the two sections of the old bridge without any impact to the new one.
The bridge carried about 22-hundred vehicles per day on average throughout the year. Burke says there will be a car ferry available for people who need to cross the bridge for work, but it will not be open until November.
Demolition of the old bridge should be completed by spring of 2026, with the new bridge scheduled to open in the spring of 2027.
story courtesy of Radio Iowa