[Kon-Peki]

> Toward the end of 2021, the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge (I-74 Bridge) was completed, providing a new multimodal crossing of the Mississippi River between East Moline, Illinois, and Bettendorf, Iowa. Prior to this bridge completion, the Great American Rail-Trail was routed across the Government/Arsenal Bridge farther west between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa. Both bridges are about the same length and accommodate trail users. Therefore, instead of choosing which bridge should be the official crossing of the Great American Rail-Trail, both bridges are shown on the route map, and trail users can choose for themselves.

Which bridge did you choose to cross the Mississippi? From photos, it looks like the bike/pedestrian path on the I-74 bridge is dramatically superior and should be the "official" crossing, but I can understand that the historical significance of the Government/Arsenal bridge keeps that on the map (it is the 2nd rebuild of the very first bridge to ever cross the Mississippi and was the subject of the lawsuit that got a country bumpkin lawyer named Abe Lincoln into the national newspapers for the first time).

[l3db3tt3r]

I took the I-74 bridge; it lined up with my accommodations, and the ‘newness’ of it was touted as something to see/do at the time.