A DOT meeting July 16 will go over plans to build an interchange at the US 18/218 intersection on the south side of Floyd. The plans and a silent video rendering are already available.
The four-lane will stay almost in the same position but it will be elevated. Nearly all work is set for fiscal 2022, so that maybe that means some dirt will be moved in late 2021. I admit not knowing that for sure, since the most immediate analogues — the US 65/IA 330 interchange and the US 30/218 interchange — made the cross-road the overpass, not the mainline. The westbound offramp (i.e. northbound 218 exiting from the Avenue of the Saints) will start near where the Love’s truck stop sign with the fuel prices is now.
When it is complete, every intersection of US 218 with another US route except in Lee County will be grade-separated.