Showing posts with label Highways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Highways. Show all posts

Friday, October 22, 2021

Leonard L. Robinson Memorial Bridge, Casper Wyoming.



Back last year we posted this item here:

Lex Anteinternet: The 2020 Wyoming Legislative Session. Proposed Dr. Leonard L. Robinson memorial bridge.

Lex Anteinternet: The 2020 Wyoming Legislative Session. The early c...There's a proposal to dedicate a bridge in Casper that crosses Center Street in honor of a veteran of the Bataan Death March.



2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0464



HOUSE BILL NO. HB0096


Dr. Leonard L. Robinson memorial bridge.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Harshman, Blake, Brown, Lindholm, MacGuire and Walters and Senator(s) Anderson, Landen, Pappas and Von Flatern


A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to highways and bridges; designating a bridge as specified; providing for signage; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.  W.S. 241138 is created to read:

241138.  Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March memorial bridge.

The bridge on United States Interstate Highway 25 crossing over Center Street in Casper, Wyoming shall be known as the "Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge."  The department of transportation shall install appropriate signage, in compliance with applicable federal and state law, to identify the Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge.

Section 2.  Nothing in this act shall require the department of transportation to remove or modify any designation of the bridge specified in section 1 of this act submitted to the federal highway administration.

Section 3.  There is appropriated five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) from the general fund to the department of transportation for purposes of installing signage required by this act.  This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 2022.  This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2022.  It is the intent of the legislature that this appropriation not be included in the department of transportation's standard budget for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.

Section 4.  This act is effective July 1, 2020.

(END)

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Robinson was an enlisted man 200th Coastal Artillery in the Philippines at the time of the Japanese invasion of the islands and was part of the large group of US troops taken prisoner as a result.  He had been an engineering student at the University of Colorado and conscripted in the prior year, during which period he was also a semi-professional golfer.


A deeply religious man, after the war he completed his engineering studies and obtained a Doctorate in Theology from Northwestern some time later.  As an engineer, he helped design one of the first US ejection seats for aircraft.

An Englewood Colorado native, he is certainly worthy of a memorial, although I have to say that I don't know if an Interstate 25 bridge in a confusing intersection is really a great one.  I don't mean to be disrespectful  on that, but it does seem a better memorial, or even a better bridge, could have been used.  Indeed, that's somewhat reflected in the poor quality of these photographs, as there's really no convenient way to take a photo from the ground, and the intersection is always pretty busy.

Friday, February 7, 2020

Lex Anteinternet: The 2020 Wyoming Legislative Session. Proposed Dr. Leonard L. Robinson memorial bridge.

Lex Anteinternet: The 2020 Wyoming Legislative Session. The early c...There's a proposal to dedicate a bridge in Casper that crosses Center Street in honor of a veteran of the Bataan Death March.



2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0464



HOUSE BILL NO. HB0096


Dr. Leonard L. Robinson memorial bridge.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Harshman, Blake, Brown, Lindholm, MacGuire and Walters and Senator(s) Anderson, Landen, Pappas and Von Flatern


A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to highways and bridges; designating a bridge as specified; providing for signage; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.  W.S. 241138 is created to read:

241138.  Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March memorial bridge.

The bridge on United States Interstate Highway 25 crossing over Center Street in Casper, Wyoming shall be known as the "Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge."  The department of transportation shall install appropriate signage, in compliance with applicable federal and state law, to identify the Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge.

Section 2.  Nothing in this act shall require the department of transportation to remove or modify any designation of the bridge specified in section 1 of this act submitted to the federal highway administration.

Section 3.  There is appropriated five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) from the general fund to the department of transportation for purposes of installing signage required by this act.  This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 2022.  This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2022.  It is the intent of the legislature that this appropriation not be included in the department of transportation's standard budget for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.

Section 4.  This act is effective July 1, 2020.

(END)

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Thursday, November 8, 2018

Monument to Wyoming Highway Patrolman Chris Logsdon, near Wheatland Wyoming.


This memorial at the Rest Stop at the intersection of the state highway to Wheatland and Interstate 25 is the second monument to Wyoming Highway Patrolman Chris Logsdon.   A second one off of I25 is nearby, but isn't really safely accessible to the public.


I somehow managed to miss this one even though I've stopped here many times.  It may be a more recent addition commemorating this Troopers tragic loss.

Monday, July 10, 2017

Memorial to Wyoming Highway Patrolman Chris S. Logsdon, Wheatland Wyoming.


Memorial on Interstate 25 to Wyoming Highway Patrolman Chris S. Logsdon, who lost his life responding on October 13, 1998 to a report of a drunk driver.  The driver turned out to be a 92 year old motorist who was not drunk, but confused, and who was driving on the wrong side of the divided highway.  Upon Trooper Logsdon's arrival at the scene he was forced to swerve to avoid the other vehicle causing his patrol cruiser to flip several times, killing Logsdon.




Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Purple Heart Trail Memorial, Interstate 80, Albany County, Wyoming.



This monument is placed at the same rest stop that the Lincoln Memorial and the Lincoln Highway Memorial featured below are located.  It's obviously in honor of those who have been wounded in action, and therefore eligible to receive the Purple Heart.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Interstate 80, Wyoming





This is the very large bronze of Abraham Lincoln located on Interstate 80 just east of Laramie, Wyoming.  Interstate 80 is located on what was once the Lincoln Highway, hence explaining the very large bronze, which is otherwise somewhat unusual for a Wyoming monument.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

I-25 Wyoming Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Highway


Just recently Interstate Highway 25 in Wyoming has been designated the Wyoming Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Higway.  This has been marked by signs, and also here noted on the overhead highway sign.  On the date this photo was taken, a parade for Vietnam veterans was being held in nearby Casper.