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Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous
Jan
08
A Transportation Commission meeting with a notable absence
The Iowa Transportation Commission is having its first meeting of the year today in Ames. The agenda is the most pedestrian possible. (Where’s the transfer of jurisdiction of those weird stubs still under state control?) But off camera, so to … Continue reading
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Dec
14
Another Exit Zero
I am a fan of Exit Zero. Not everyone is. Mile markers begin at the south or west terminus of a route or the state line. When the route has an interchange at that terminus, it should follow that the … Continue reading
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Dec
04
The US 20 reroute that wasn’t
The 1931 Iowa highway map includes an explosion of highway numbers across the state, in what I call the First Great Commissioning. Many of the routes that died in either 1980 or 2003 trace their history to this time. But … Continue reading
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Nov
07
Why the US 30-US 151 trumpet is backwards
In the southeast corner of the Cedar Rapids metro area, the US 30 expressway comes to an end (for another year, anyway) while US 151 heads north. This is not the original routing for 151; it was rerouted away from … Continue reading
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Oct
31
Evil has come to Fort Dodge
October 20, 2018: …but when the roadgeek turned around from this view on 2nd Avenue South in Fort Dodge, the street had vanished! It was a ghost sign, disembodied from the route it once served! While doing an online scouting … Continue reading
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Oct
22
US 20 finally open to four lanes across Iowa
October 19, 2018: Acting Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg (center) holds the ribbon to mark the completion of four-lane US 20 along with a host of government officials and members of the US 20 Corridor Association. Holstein, Iowa, October 19 — … Continue reading
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Oct
19
A celebration of Highway 20
Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 2017 America’s longest highway begins in the cradle of the Revolution. From the five-way intersection about 2 miles west of the center of Boston you can see the lights for left field of Fenway Park, on … Continue reading
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Oct
17
After decades of waiting, a complete ribbon of highway
October 20, 2002: Concrete for new US 20 ends at the Grundy/Hardin county line, as seen from the B Avenue/Z Avenue bridge. A full gallery of that fall’s construction can be seen here. ============== U.S. 20 between Sioux City and … Continue reading
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Oct
16
The political effect, or not, of a ribbon-cutting
November 12, 2008: Gov. Chet Culver addresses the crowd at the opening of the US 34 Fairfield bypass, completing the expressway between Des Moines and Burlington first proposed 40 years earlier (although, as originally planned, it used IA 92 to Oskaloosa). … Continue reading
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Oct
15
One of US 20’s birth announcements
Highway Markers Go Up This Week In Ida County and elsewhere over the entire state of Iowa the handsome new state highway signs are being erected this week. In some localities, the county engineers began putting them in place Saturday, … Continue reading
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