The Black Hawk Bridge connecting Lansing Iowa and DeSoto and Ferryville in southwest Wisconsin is closing while its replacement is constructed, leaving residents in both states hustling to cross the Mississippi River.
Imagine you’re running late for work, but you have to take a water taxi or ferry over a river instead of driving over a bridge. That’s what will confront people in southwestern Wisconsin when the bridge over the Mississippi River that connects DeSoto and Ferryville in Crawford County to Lansing, Iowa is removed in October until its replacement is constructed by 2027...
...A people ferry and car ferry could help...
...Transportation officials are exploring a car ferry service...
...“They’re only going to be able to bring 12, 14 cars at a time over, and that’s certainly not going to take the place of the traffic that was on the Black Hawk Bridge,” Gillespie said...
See our previous stories from this newsletter HERE...
Ken Notes: Many details in this article and both DeSoto and Ferryville are on the GRR and would like to see business from both a people ferry and car ferry...
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