Today, new eastbound lanes of US 20 will open from east of Moville to County Road L25 west of Correctionville, according to an e-mail from the DOT. The 7½-mile segment is the first extension east from a segment that opened 59 years and 11 months ago. The new eastbound is more or less on top of the old two-lane. A segment running east from L25 opened last year, so this completes the expressway from Sioux City to the north side of Correctionville.
This is the piece that touches a four-mile segment that was the first rural four-lane 20 in Iowa, the only segment in Woodbury County that overlapped with the paving of the early 1920s.