Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — Traffic Over London Bridge. [ARTICLE]

Traffic Over London Bridge.

It is computed that about 200,000 pedestrians and 20,000 vehicles cross London bridge every day. Each leaves behind a little shoe leather or a little iron —Just a trifle. But when litter and dust are added to these minute losses the whole fills between three and four carts. The most surprising fact of all, however, is that the incessant traffic across the bridge reduces to powder about twenty-five cubic yards of granite every year.