Posted by Nice on September 01, 2012 at 08:46:29 from (67.142.171.26):
In Reply to: Re: Covered bridges posted by George Marsh on September 01, 2012 at 08:34:32:
But you failed to mention that they weren't built for "traffic jams and money". They're still around because the county is very rural and has several creeks and rivers. Thus they had an abundance of bridges and a severe shortage on county highway money. So in the 70's someone made the observation that Parke county was one of the very few places in the entire country that still had many in use, let alone even 1 left. So the traffic jams and money may come once a year, but to say that having them is for a tourist trap is false. Its a function of county road funding and location that led to them being around 50 years after most were gone.
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