Although the DOT didn’t quite get the road open before Thanksgiving, there’s going to be a ribbon-cutting for the IA 100 extension from Edgewood Road to Covington Road (old IA 94) Saturday at 1 PM. The road will not open to vehicle traffic then, but will sometime before Christmas.
In the past month, visible progress has been made on the rest of the IA 100 extension, including demolition of the 80th Street bridge over US 30/218 (on Sunday, the LGS pointing to eastbound 30 still stood, without any road around it).
There’s one side project that hasn’t been added to any lists as far as I know, but is something that should be looked at immediately: Paving E Avenue (County Road E48) between the bypass and Atkins. Atkins has doubled in population in 20 years and there is a lot of residential development on the east side of town; it makes sense that commuters heading to the Collins Road area would want to be able to drive straight east and pick up the bypass.