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Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous
Jun
13
Cascade business route rerouted
At the fall 2021 meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Iowa submitted an application to change the route of Business US 151 in Cascade. The application starts on page 4 in this large PDF. The … Continue reading
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Jun
01
Business 30 in Mount Vernon-Lisbon: Yes or no?
When the Mount Vernon-Lisbon US 30 bypass opened without any signs indicating a Business 30, I figured the DOT had simply decided against one. Either I was wrong or someone’s mind changed. The spring 2020 meeting of the American Association … Continue reading
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May
25
Notes on 2023-27 highway plan
(I almost typed 1923-27. Shows how much I’m looking into that era right now.) The Iowa Transportation Commission’s five-year plan is out, with a font change, mixed-case type, comma separators, no mileages listed (again!) and occasionally a more informal style … Continue reading
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Jan
19
An I-380 sign overlay that never got placed
On southbound I-380 in Cedar Rapids, at the 27th Avenue SW overpass, there’s an overhead sign with the distance for the next, and last, city exit: 33rd Avenue SW. The bracket is designed to hold a sign with two lines … Continue reading
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Dec
20
IA 136 to be truncated after all
July 16, 2020: US 52 was signed along IA 136 between US 20 and Luxemburg even before the Southwest Arterial opened. This duplex will turn out to be short-lived. Remember when I said that US 52’s reroute through Dyersville should … Continue reading
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Dec
03
New I-74 bridge fully open; old fully closed
Thousands of people turned out for the grand opening of the I-74 bridge on Wednesday. (I, sadly, was not one of them.) The Illinois-bound span fully opened Thursday night, and the last lane in use on the 1959 bridge was … Continue reading
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Nov
08
Eating your way down the Lincoln Highway
WHO’s Roger Riley drove Iowa’s eastern half of the Lincoln Highway for a feature story. This means he got PAID to eat prime rib at the Lighthouse Inn near Cedar Rapids, an omelet at the Lincoln Cafe in Belle Plaine, … Continue reading
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Oct
01
Louisa County stops paying the ferryman
The distinction between farm-to-market and local roads once mattered to a great degree in highway systems. Even now, the designation is maintained, and the former is described as roads that “provide all-weather routes to destination points”. So when a county … Continue reading
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Sep
29
Bella Vista bypass opens this week
One of the Midwest’s longest-promised highway projects that never seemed to get off the ground for years is opening this week. The Bella Vista bypass will go across the Arkansas-Missouri state line and create a full four-lane I-49 from Fort … Continue reading
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Aug
16
Many state-level ‘poor’ bridges on replacement list
A few weeks ago, we got another round of stories about Iowa’s high number of “structurally deficient” bridges. This occurs regularly; I made a post five years ago about the bridge list then and their replacement timetables. As a reminder, … Continue reading
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