Category Archives: Construction

It’s been more than half a century since County Road H34 from Hastings to Corning was US 34, but it’s still “old Highway 34” to the locals, and this spring it’s going to lose part of its old-ness. The Red … Continue reading →

The Iowa DOT meeting on upgrading I-380 to six lanes on the north side of the Cedar Rapids metro, including an interchange at Tower Terrace Road and rebuilt interchange at Boyson Road, is now Feb. 28 after a weather postponement. … Continue reading →

A two sentence press release with an up and down: The Iowa DOT is requesting public input on the proposed bridge improvements to U.S. 20 over the Mississippi River, in Dubuque County. Could it be? Is four lanes over the … Continue reading →

October 9, 2018: Model T’s drove on this bridge over Big Whisky Creek in Woodbury County, right near the place Correctionville Road dips closest to present US 20. One of the last two remaining pieces of one of Iowa’s first … Continue reading →

The most recent environmental assessment (large PDF) for an expanded I-380 on the north side of Linn County has something new for the state of Iowa: consecutive diverging diamond interchanges. Today, there is only one diverging diamond interchange in the … Continue reading →

May 7, 2018: An elevator would provide a more direct connection from Bettendorf’s Riverfront Trail (seen at bottom left) to the future I-74 bridge, whose Iowa landing will be just a bit upstream from the current one. The city of … Continue reading →

As many as 15,000 vehicles per day are expected on the new 1.3-mile segment of Highway 100 in northeast Cedar Rapids which opens at 11 am Wednesday. The $3.2 million highway is an extension of Collins Road NE, connecting Interstate 380 and Edgewood Read NE. The … Continue reading →

Between this story from KWWL and a video from the city of Dubuque, we can see that the Southwest Arterial is making progress. The related project on US 20, an intersection with the new Menards frontage road and Old Highway … Continue reading →

I admit, I wasn’t there, but with the weather the way it was I can’t say I’m too disappointed in missing out. KCRG has a story about the IA 100 ribbon cutting and ceremonial ride/walk along the new segment. The … Continue reading →

The Iowa DOT is doing nighttime closures of US 30 at I-35 to place beams overhead for the new flyover ramp, Radio Iowa reports. As both IPR and an earlier blog post note, this was supposed to be done by … Continue reading →