Once-key Waterloo intersection being rebuilt

The intersection of Franklin Street and First Street just to the north of downtown Waterloo is going to have major work done on it, the Iowa DOT says in a press release. That starts the day after Labor Day and is related to the project turning the US 63 railroad underpass into an overpass.

Franklin Street was the pre-freeway route of US 20 through central Waterloo, and after some bridge shuffling, the intersections with First and Mullan Avenue became 63’s intersections with 20. For a couple years after the freeway opened the spot was the east end of IA 57, which had taken over 20’s route. All of that is in my Waterloo/Cedar Falls Highway Chronology.

I need to refresh photos in the Waterloo area, and probably should have in 2016 before the signs that were left at this intersection came down, but that’s going to need to wait until work like this is finished up.

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