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06/05/2026

HEADS UP! TEMPORARY FERRY AND RIVER TRAFFIC CLOSING DURING CENTER SPAN INSTALLATION... https://iowadot.gov/news/2026-06-05/iowa-9-wis-82-mississippi-river-bridge-update-ferry-and-river-traffic-close-center-span-installation?fbclid=IwY2xjawSPyrtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFwN2paUFp3eFRiTmJMUERhc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmW29nxEWUgEPBQBkwkPRMJtF_BEjrl4VxqXuj94U5JJHrF5R6Ft_B7L4GsP_aem_kOgZZHKcOsZ-cYcNhu_fZA

Iowa 9 / WIS 82 Mississippi River Bridge Update – Ferry and River Traffic to Close for Center Span Installation on June 11 and 12

06/05/2026

FINAL SECTION CLOSER TO INSTALLATION - View from the car ferry, photo made late Thursday afternoon, looking upriver, shows the final section of the new bridge aimed to be put in place June 11. --Photo by Ellen Modersohn

06/04/2026

'POT'LUCK FOR THIS TURTLE - I couldn't share directly from the City of New Albin (Iowa) so I made a screenshot of the post and here it is. The turtle eggs would than Rick Zarwell if they could.

05/31/2026

IRON MEN ON TOP - Bridge workers upriver from the new Lansing, Iowa bridge further assemble another section Sunday morning. That's Gunnar Wiltsie, an ironworker from Tomah, WI, at the very top! The bridge section and cranes are on barges where they are assembled before being added to the rest of the bridge. If heights give you the creeps, just think about the guys up there. At least it wasn't windy!

05/30/2026

CLOSING THE GAP, REACHING FOR THE OTHER SIDE - It's not only looking like a bridge these days, it's a pretty darn good likeness of the much loved late Black Hawk Bridge. It's interesting how workers have been able to add angles of steel — piece by piece, section by section — to piers on each side of the Mississippi River that, along with the help of cranes, reach to make a final connection one day soon.

05/29/2026

NOTE! FOR PEOPLE USING THE FERRY FROM THE IOWA SIDE OF THE RIVER - Review the new procedures in the attachment.

05/16/2026

95 YEARS LATER, NEW PIERS FOR A NEW BRIDGE - Look closely, focus on the piers that support the deck -- The point of these two photos is to show the similar stage of construction of the old Black Hawk bridge around 1930 (with the steam powered riverboat "Ellen" passing by) and the new bridge in a photo from July of last year showing its piers not long after they were built on the Wisconsin side.

05/14/2026

LOADED, HEADED FOR WISCONSIN - Another day, another ferry-load of vehicles being shuttled across the Mississippi River from Lansing, Iowa, while new bridge construction is closing the gap!