One of the heavily traveled rural Iowa interstate corridors that needs to be upgraded to six lanes takes a baby step in that direction on Monday. There will be a meeting then in Huxley about I-35 between Ankeny and Ames, the Ames Tribune reports. Construction would be about five years out.
Construction on the new Skunk River bridges accounts for three lanes in each direction (hence the new roadbed there), and six-laning I-35 between the Oralabor Road and NE 36th Street exits in Ankeny is part of a different project that would change the 1st Street exit to a diverging diamond.