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Lansing bridge repairs will lead to detours for a week

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Some drivers in the area may have a long round trip if they travel between Wisconsin and Iowa in mid-April. 

The Black Hawk Bridge in Lansing will be shut down for a week starting April 15th, for replacement of some steel portions of the bridge. 

Instead of crossing the Mississippi at Lansing, drivers will have to go about 30 miles out of their way, to the nearest bridges at either La Crosse or Prairie du Chien. 

A similar detour was needed in 1981, when structural flaws in a nearly new bridge at Prairie forced an emergency closing there. 

That shutdown lasted seven months. 

Bridge repairs also forced the closing of the Main Channel Bridge in Winona for two weeks in 2008.   

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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