US 30 is now four lanes around Mount Vernon and Lisbon, completing a bypass that goes just to the south of those towns. The official opening was Friday — a classic right-before-Thanksgiving completion.
The bypass extends the continuous four-lane from US 218 eastward to just inside Cedar County. It removes the last impediments (stoplight and roundabouts) to US 30 traffic between the four-way stop in Boone and just west of the now-closed Target in Clinton. (That doesn’t count the low speed limits in towns east of Mechanicsville, though.)
No immediate word on how the Lincoln Highway’s marked route will change, but it has to.