LANSING Iowa — Who will hold historic honors as the last human being to drive across the 1931 Black Hawk Bridge that connects Lansing across the Mississippi River with western Wisconsin? The shaky high span has been closed off and on for months for structural reasons, but roadblocks will go up the final time next Monday. A 12-vehicle ferry has been contracted to accommodate the usual 700 cars a day between Lansing and Ferryville. In mid-December — a new date — the bridge will be imploded. A towboat will crisscross the river all winter to break ice for the car ferry. The ferry will operate 16 hours a day. So who will make the final trip over the rickety Black Hawk Bridge? Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa? Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin? If they dare.
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