Despite the headline on this KWWL story, Dubuque’s Southwest Arterial is going to take a little while longer.
City officials had been hoping for completion of the road by the end of this year’s construction season. But the wet, cold still-winter that Iowa has had this year (which is only turning around this week) put a dent into timing.
The first sentence from a Dubuque Telegraph-Herald story says the road isn’t likely to open for another 13 or 14 months, with construction going into next summer.