April 25, 2005: IA 152’s west, or north, end, taken on a short run trying out a then-new camera.
The Iowa Transportation Commission approved the five-year plan on Tuesday, and with it some tweaks to the existing highway system. The short list is in the DOT’s press release. The transfer of jurisdiction issues have been covered before:
- IA 31 is a future change, related to US 20 in the Correctionville area.
- University Avenue will be transferred to the city of Cedar Falls, but not Waterloo (yet).
- IA 98’s decommissioning is still scheduled for July 1, 2016.
- IA 92 will be rerouted around Muscatine, which I discussed a month ago.
- Most importantly, and most immediately, IA 152 will cease to exist at the end of the month. It will become Clarke County Road R35, which it was before 1980. The 152 number was moved over from a spur into Murray.
IA 152’s sign quirks have been documented extensively on its page. The end of the road will mean that there will be a giant square of southern Iowa, formed by IA 14-92-25-2, where there is no state highway. Clarke County will only have I-35, US 34, and US 69.
The five-year plan also specifies an interchange for the US 65/IA 330/F17 area, and WHO notes that means Larry Cleverley will lose his farm. (WHO also redesigned its website very recently.)
The Sioux City Journal has some additional coverage about what the newly approved plan has in store for I-29 and US 20.