Author Archives: Jeff

Apr 24

I-380 construction

IA 297 had 50 days to live when this picture was taken, May 20, 2003 The most interesting thing about this summer’s reconstruction project of I-380/US 20 is the creation of unequal lanes. There is going to be a 14-foot-wide … Continue reading

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Apr 23

Red light, green light

Des Moines has 420 signalized intersections. West Des Moines has 110. (Note: Sidebar on link may not work in Safari.) Tama County has six.

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Apr 20

A dozen pages updated

The most time-consuming part of updating pages, it seems, is re-counting the order for the photo dates at the bottom of each page. That said, these were from pictures taken in mid-2011. Pages updated: 62, 111, 113, 142, 202, 221, … Continue reading

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Apr 19

Is there a doctor in the county?

Taylor County has no doctor’s offices, according to this map. (Start at the national level and zoom in.) About half of the counties in the middle shade of orange there only have one doctor’s office.

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Apr 18

Pat Summitt stepping down

Summitt on the sidelines vs. Baylor, March 26, 2012 My tickets for the 2012 NCAA Women’s Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games were right across from the Tennessee bench. I finally had a chance to see coaching legend Pat Summitt … Continue reading

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Apr 18

Woden-Crystal Lake’s dissolution dilemma

WCLT High School sign in Crystal Lake, July 2011. The “Titonka” plank has been removed. At the end of last school year, the Woden-Crystal Lake and Titonka school districts went their separate ways. WCL started a sharing agreement with Forest … Continue reading

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Apr 18

Meeting on US 61

Last week, reported in the Burlington Hawk Eye. With the completion of the Fort Madison bypass and rerouting onto interstates in the Quad Cities, the only two-lane stretches of US 61 in the state are the 32-mile segment between Burlington … Continue reading

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Apr 16

Photos by the numbers: End sequence

You knew it had to come some time, right? Well, I finally got tired of going through the same 10,000-odd photos (after sorting out inapplicable categories) in search of one more number. So there aren’t going to be scheduled posts … Continue reading

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Apr 15

Photos by the numbers: 165 and 166

July 10, 2008: Norfolk, Virginia. Look at the middle shield. It is for “US 166,” which exists half a continent away. This is US 13’s first/last stoplight on this side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

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Apr 15

Maquoketa Caves reopen

KWWL and the Quad-City Times have stories. Until 2003, the state park was the destination of IA 428, the highest signed non-900 designation in the Iowa highway system.

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