Useless roads

[kphoger]

Whatever you think of I-180 in Illinois existing, the bridge over the Illinois River at Hennepin needs to exist, at least for local traffic.

Why?  Before I-180, there was already a bridge over the Illinois River in Hennepin (old Route 26).

[thspfc]

Whatever you think of I-180 in Illinois existing, the bridge over the Illinois River at Hennepin needs to exist, at least for local traffic.

Why?  Before I-180, there was already a bridge over the Illinois River in Hennepin (old Route 26).

It doesn't exist anymore, so how is that relevant today? I-180 in IL was created to serve a power plant (or something of that sort, I'm not entirely sure), and it is now very lightly traveled because that power plant/whatever it was closed. The point is that the I-180 bridge over the river is the only bridge that currently exists in Hennepin, so the bridge will stay regardless of what happens to I-180 itself.

[Flint1979]

Whatever you think of I-180 in Illinois existing, the bridge over the Illinois River at Hennepin needs to exist, at least for local traffic.

Why?  Before I-180, there was already a bridge over the Illinois River in Hennepin (old Route 26).

It doesn't exist anymore, so how is that relevant today? I-180 in IL was created to serve a power plant (or something of that sort, I'm not entirely sure), and it is now very lightly traveled because that power plant/whatever it was closed. The point is that the I-180 bridge over the river is the only bridge that currently exists in Hennepin, so the bridge will stay regardless of what happens to I-180 itself.

Steel plant

[thspfc]

Whatever you think of I-180 in Illinois existing, the bridge over the Illinois River at Hennepin needs to exist, at least for local traffic.

Why?  Before I-180, there was already a bridge over the Illinois River in Hennepin (old Route 26).

It doesn't exist anymore, so how is that relevant today? I-180 in IL was created to serve a power plant (or something of that sort, I'm not entirely sure), and it is now very lightly traveled because that power plant/whatever it was closed. The point is that the I-180 bridge over the river is the only bridge that currently exists in Hennepin, so the bridge will stay regardless of what happens to I-180 itself.

Steel plant

You sure it wasn't Flint? 

[Flint1979]

Whatever you think of I-180 in Illinois existing, the bridge over the Illinois River at Hennepin needs to exist, at least for local traffic.

Why?  Before I-180, there was already a bridge over the Illinois River in Hennepin (old Route 26).

It doesn't exist anymore, so how is that relevant today? I-180 in IL was created to serve a power plant (or something of that sort, I'm not entirely sure), and it is now very lightly traveled because that power plant/whatever it was closed. The point is that the I-180 bridge over the river is the only bridge that currently exists in Hennepin, so the bridge will stay regardless of what happens to I-180 itself.

Steel plant

You sure it wasn't Flint? 

Haha. Well I know it was a Jones and Laughlin plant and that's a steel company and the name of the drive leading to the plant is called Steel Drive.

[kphoger]

Whatever you think of I-180 in Illinois existing, the bridge over the Illinois River at Hennepin needs to exist, at least for local traffic.

Why?  Before I-180, there was already a bridge over the Illinois River in Hennepin (old Route 26).

It doesn't exist anymore, so how is that relevant today? I-180 in IL was created to serve a power plant (or something of that sort, I'm not entirely sure), and it is now very lightly traveled because that power plant/whatever it was closed. The point is that the I-180 bridge over the river is the only bridge that currently exists in Hennepin, so the bridge will stay regardless of what happens to I-180 itself.

I think you were tracking along the lines of "should be demolished", whereas I was tracking along the lines of "should never have been built".

My point is that, had I-180 never been built, the locals of Hennepin would nevertheless have a bridge across the river.  It would still be part of Route 26.

Your point is that, now that I-180 has been built and the old bridge demolished, the existing bridge should be kept even if I-180 were ripped up.

Both of those points are valid.