Iowa highway construction took a record step Tuesday when the transportation commission approved a $3.2 billion five-year plan. If federal funding stays on track, this five-year plan includes the complete expansion of US 20 to four lanes in Iowa (except the Julien Dubuque Bridge).
There don’t appear to be any major changes from the draft plan, which was amended before release to include projects made possible by the increase in the state’s gas tax. Dubuque’s Southwest Arterial and taking US 61/IA 92 to four lanes down to Grandview would be the new-ish things (that is to say, not continuations of things that have been going on a while).
On the county level, Fremont County will be doing a major construction project on old IA 184, now J18, probably the first big work on that since decommissioning.