Take it away, Internet:
But seriously, Real Soon Now is actually real soon now. There’s actual construction happening on the IA 100 bypass of western Cedar Rapids. It is scheduled to be built in two stages, Edgewood Road to Covington Road and then to US 30/218. It should be done around the end of the decade; the KCRG story embedded below says 2020 but the plan says paving will be done in 2016 and 2018. The Edgewood Road exit will be the state’s second SPUI, after George Mills Parkway on I-35 in West Des Moines.
Also in Linn County, the Mount Vernon/Lisbon bypass is in the five-year plan to be graded in 2017 and built in 2019. That’s some good news for US 30, to counteract the bad news that future four-laning in Benton County will be delayed.