The I-80 bridge's westbound lanes would turn into grassy grounds for bison to roam. The eastbound lanes would feature a pedestrian and bike path offering a close-up view of the large land mammals that are estimated to at one time to have numbered over 60 million in North America.
Swaths of prairie land would connect to the base of the bridge on each side of the buffalo lanes.
The Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge that carries I-80 over the Mississippi River opened in 1966 and was named for a local Iowa Republican congressman who was instrumental in backing the Interstate Highway Act. Each day, roughly 42,000 vehicles drive over the more than half mile long bridge, which connects Rapid City, a small Illinois town of about 1,000 people, and LeClaire, a quaint city of aboutb 4,000 in Iowa.
--RoadBison
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