This is a “clearing the spindle” week, where I bring up items glossed over during posting of my trip log and my illness.
In the current DOT five-year plan, US 20 is supposed to be four-laned between Moville and Correctionville by the end of 2018. Plan drafts indicated that the existing two-lane road would not be used, in favor of building an entirely new alignment.
The Sioux City Journal reported on March 19, however, that it was not going to be possible to keep existing 20 open while those new lanes were built. In preparation for the first new lanes being built in 2016, old US 20 will be rebuilt to hold detour traffic.
This part of 20, now D22, was bypassed in 1958. The segment to be rebuilt is between Ida and Minnesota avenues.