Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1914 — Want New Bridge Across River at Work Street. [ARTICLE]

Want New Bridge Across River at Work Street.

A petition has been circulated and signed by practically everyone to whom presented, asking township trustee Harvey W. Wood, Jr., to erect a new bridge over the river at the west end of Work street, consame with River and Odell streets on the west. The approaches to the proposed bridge were built several years ago but no bridge has ever been put in. The erection of a bridge at this point would be of great convenience to town people as well as traffic in general from the south, and would relieve the Washington street bridge of a very large part of the heavy hauling, such as grain, etc., from the south, all of which must new pass over this one bridge. Most of the people south, in hauling grain, would prefer to come down Kannal avenue and Odell street to River street, and cross over to Work street and thence on one of the streets north to the elevators, and thus avoid the congested traffic which we now frequently have on Washington street. The matter will be presented to the county commissioners, it is understood, by Mr. Wood for action on their part. That the improvement is badly needed, everyone at all familiar with traffic conditions in Rensselaer, will admit.