At the risk of exposing my geographic ignorance, how many large bodies of water are in Iowa to have over 5,000 bridges? It’s flat and land-locked. They grow corn there. How dangerous can a bridge over a creek be?
Where you have big rivers, you have smaller rivers feeding into them. Virtually every city or town of significant size in Iowa is on a river forming a tributary of either the Mississippi or the Missouri rivers. You got rivers, you need bridges to get over them.
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At the risk of exposing my geographic ignorance, how many large bodies of water are in Iowa to have over 5,000 bridges? It’s flat and land-locked. They grow corn there. How dangerous can a bridge over a creek be?
ummm… you do realize that Iowa’s eastern and western borders are defined by two of the largest rivers in the country, don’t you?
OK…..that would command several large bridges, but where are the majority of the 5,153 bridges in need of repair?
Where you have big rivers, you have smaller rivers feeding into them. Virtually every city or town of significant size in Iowa is on a river forming a tributary of either the Mississippi or the Missouri rivers. You got rivers, you need bridges to get over them.
Take a look at the map here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:National-atlas-iowa.png
Also, the article says that the state has 5000 or so bridges, and 21% (600 or so) of them are in need of repair.
Just wondering…maybe Clint Eastwood could come back and make repairs?!
They just need a truckload of Gorilla Glue