The Muscatine Journal‘s coverage of the Louisa County Board of Supervisors earlier this month had a single paragraph mentioning that US 61 from the county line to 130th Street was expected to open Nov. 20. The new four-lane includes interchanges at IA 92 and at Louisa-Muscatine High School.
If it indeed has opened — and given the decent weather and customary Thanksgiving deadline, no reason it wouldn’t — it would have been nice to have a notice about it.
The Journal story was mostly about replacing the bridge for the former IA 99 across the Iowa River east of Wapello.
UPDATE: Jason Hancock, keeping an eye on traffic cameras set up along the new alignment, says it did not open until Dec. 1. This continues the nearly uninterrupted streak of a four-lane segment opening somewhere in Iowa every year for 60 years.