What should be the last meeting about the US 61 Mediapolis bypass will be tomorrow night at the elementary school there. PDFs available already here.*
Three years ago, residents voiced their concern or opposition to only having one interchange, on the west side of town at H38, and no access to new 61 on the north or south ends. (All of the four-lane will be shifted at least slightly from the current two-lane.) But the DOT has stuck with the one-interchange plan.
In the most recent five-year plan, the bypass will not be finished until 2024 — more than a quarter-century since the state started to seriously make plans for four-laning US 61 across the state.
* I appreciate that the date of the meeting is in the file name, but a (YY)YYMMDD convention would help out for archive purposes, rather than MMDDYY. Yes, I realize that was a very geeky sentence. The explanation of the difference is equally geeky (and annoys the Brits, so it’s not all bad).