Letter to the Editor:

Nothing is impossible if you try.

The Lincoln Highway Bridge is saveable.

Number one: use a cement cutter and take out the lamps on each end.

Second: After they are removed place steel beams under the entire length of the Lincoln Highway lettering concrete.

Third: Use a cement cutter and cut the full length of the roadway. Then to remove, put straps around lettering and steel beams. Lift out with crane and set aside.

Next would be to either tear out old bridge and replace with wider bridge / connect with high curbage and drainage.

Looking at the photo in the paper a few weeks ago shows salt and sand eating away at the bottom of letters and lamps settling. Solution is to make a raised shoulder with proper drainage to let winter salt and sand drain off. Place the lamps and Lincoln signage up on the raised shoulder. A new wider bridge / culvert is possible.

If Jefferson, Iowa, can save their Lincoln Highway arched bridge and widen it, thus keeping the integrity of the old, then Tama can do it also.

Remember nothing is impossible with the right thinking.

Caring for the past to look to the future.

James Snyder

Marshalltown