Category Archives: Construction

Sep 30

Second US 65 Bondurant stoplight activated

Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2014, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The four-lane US 65 diagonal through Bondurant gets a little more suburban with the addition of a signal at 32nd Street starting tomorrow. This is between Grant Street (former IA 945) and I-80. There will be another signal added to US 65 … Continue reading →

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Sep 17

US 169 washed out north of Winterset

Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2014, at 10:08 AM by Jeff

KCCI has the story; the DOT has the detour. The grade, subgrade and shoulder completely collapsed on one side.

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Aug 19

US 20 construction in Woodbury County

Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2014, at 10:55 AM by Jeff

There’s some grading and the beginnings of culverts for a four-lane US 20 between Moville and Correctionville, reports KCAU*. After traveling current 20 and old 20 in the area earlier this summer, before any construction began, I can see why … Continue reading →

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Aug 13

Union County construction update

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, at 12:22 PM by Jeff

The Union County area has a handful of construction projects going on this month. One of them, technically in Adams County, has resulted in a detour for US 34 west of Kent, using IA 25 and old IA 49 via … Continue reading →

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Aug 05

Centennial Bridge closed for a month

Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM by Jeff

The US 67 bridge across the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities is closed for a month — until the weekend after Labor Day. The story below from WHBF* goes into the problems of trying to use the Arsenal (or … Continue reading →

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Jul 28

Edgewood Road detour will last a year

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2014, at 10:23 AM by Jeff

December 2001: The west end of IA 100 has looked like this, a half-finished interchange at Edgewood Road in Cedar Rapids, since 1985. That’s going to start changing over the next month. Photo by Jason Hancock. After seven years, it … Continue reading →

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Jul 23

Dubuque deals with US 20 bridge closure

Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2014, at 10:16 AM by Jeff

Dubuque is one of the few places on Iowa’s borders where you can close a bridge across the river and have another one relatively close by. So while the Julien Dubuque Bridge into Illinois is closed until the end of … Continue reading →

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Jun 19

Big Sioux flooding creates detours for I-29

Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2014, at 10:23 PM by Jeff

South Dakota is using the bridge at I-29 exit 4 in South Dakota to build a levee across the interstate and try to save North Sioux City from flooding. There are two different detours in place. One goes through the … Continue reading →

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Jun 16

US 34 bridge opening in November?

Posted on Monday, June 16, 2014, at 11:17 AM by Jeff

It isn’t quite radio silence, but there hasn’t been much of anything in the way of news regarding the new US 34 bridge over the Missouri River. This online collection of images, for example, has one set from last July … Continue reading →

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May 28

‘Official’ start to IA 100 construction

Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at 5:17 PM by Jeff

Construction on the IA 100 extension has been going on for a while, but that can’t get in the way of a shovel-turning photo op.

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