An “online meeting” has been posted regarding US 30 in Cedar and Clinton counties from the end of the impending Lisbon bypass to De Witt. There’s a 20-minute video that you have to sign up in order to see, but PDFs with the same information are available at the public meeting link.
This takes all of 30 in eastern Iowa that is not yet four lanes, but it’s the most preliminary of stages. If a shovel is turned before New Year’s Day 2030 I would be shocked.
While the increase in the state gas tax earlier this decade carried the promise of four-laning both US 20 and US 30, doing it for the latter will be much more difficult. A large part of 30 in the study corridor is sandwiched between the railroad and Yankee Run creek and there are towns about every five miles. The study area, right now, doesn’t go too far from the current route, so any future major bypasses would require changing that. (So, please, no one else build on the south side of the road at Mechanicsville.)
The video and files suggest that four-laning this segment is not a sure thing. Keeping it as two lanes remains under consideration, as is making Super-2’s, where there are frequent passing lanes.
The comment period runs through Thursday.