Watch the video: Spectacular time-lapse recording shows the construction of this mega bridge.
We can marvel at years of work here in just a few minutes.
The I-74 Mississippi River Bridge project costs 1.2 billion US dollars.
The construction of the Interstate-74 bridge. Captured in these spectacular time-lapse recordings.
The construction of the mega-bridge, which crosses the natural border between the US states of Illinois and Iowa, has been documented with over 1 million Earthcam images.
The pictures were taken between 2020 and 2022.
The old bridge could no longer cope with the growing traffic, so in 2009 the decision was made to build a new, wider bridge in place of the old one.
Interstate-74 officially opened in December 2021.
Around 80,000 vehicles use the eight lanes of the I-74 bridge every day to get from one state to the other.