A curious item in this month’s Iowa Transportation Commission minutes:
Transfer of Jurisdiction – 219th Lane in Boone County
Most of US 30 through Boone County has the rural address of 220th Street. The only 219th Lane I see on the map is a short road in the northwest quadrant of the US 30/IA 17 interchange.
The Boone News-Republican has a story from March 12 saying the road, which serves a few businesses, was going to be paved. It also says it “was a state-owned frontage road running parallel to U.S. Highway 30.”
That’s very interesting. The state of Iowa generally doesn’t own frontage roads, at least to my knowledge. This stub never received a number and was never on any map.