As construction on the US 30/218 interchange creeps along this fall, the remaining four-lane in Benton County is still waiting. And that means, yup, another meeting! This one is in Blairstown on Oct. 4. I don’t expect any surprises for the segment between 218 and about a mile east of the future IA 21 interchange.
The new lanes, to run just south of the existing ones, won’t be built for years — in fact, it won’t be until after June 2011, the 10th anniversary of the release of initial options for where to put the four-lane. For me, though, I would’ve preferred an ETA between five years ago and yesterday.