This past weekend I was on the Hwy. 20 Julien Dubuque bridge in Dubuque, IA. It is a two-lane steel arch bridge about a mile long, built in 1943. I saw rusting bolts and decaying concrete on the bridge. This 2 lane bridge carries 50,000 cars daily. There are plans to make Hwy 20 a freeway through Iowa, Dubuque and northern Illinois, and they want to just add another 2 lane bridge next to this bridge, and keep this bridge in use. After seeing what happened yesterday, I wish they would just tear down that rickety thing!
