June 12, 2006: The intersection of West Broadway and 16th Street in Council Bluffs, currently the location where IA 192 joins/departs US 6, will be removed from the state highway system in all directions in the near future.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil has more information about the city’s plan to take over Broadway west of downtown and also the northern part of IA 192. The state would give the city $20 million to do it. The article also says the segments to be turned over include Broadway between Sixth and 16th Streets. Most of that is the viaduct that was rebuilt within the past decade and now has spindly “art” sticking out of it (a slightly more visually pleasing piece than the garish spikes at the I-80/24th Street exit).
The Sixth/Seventh one-way pair is where IA 192 meets US 6 downtown. If Broadway west of there is to become a city street, the solution for the leftovers is obvious: Extend IA 192 along Kanesville Boulevard to end at I-80 while US 6 is slapped onto the interstate in between. Most of Kanesville is a northeast-southwest road so the change to cardinal direction of the signed route isn’t too big an issue.
If all of the above happens, the only part of the original Lincoln Highway route in Council Bluffs still under state control would be the block or so between two hospitals. The Lincoln and Loess Hills Scenic Byway would still be signed, of course.