Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

Sep 13

Happy 100th birthday, Lincoln Highway route!

Posted on Friday, September 13, 2013, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

July 5, 2013: Three Bridges Park on the east side of Grand Junction The name was announced in July, but the path from coast to coast wasn’t made official until Sept. 13, 1913. The New York Times article about the … Continue reading →

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Sep 12

Lincoln Highway at 100: The Omaha shift

Posted on Thursday, September 12, 2013, at 11:21 AM by Jeff

July 12, 2013: This loop is really a spur. It runs from the state line to the corner of 6th and Erie in Missouri Valley. When US 30 was paved west of Boone in 1931, it completed the Lincoln Highway … Continue reading →

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Sep 05

US 159 Missouri River bridge opens

Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2013, at 10:04 AM by Jeff

This is just outside of Iowa, but important to the southwest. (It also means I have to go back there and travel across it to re-clinch US 159.) This Lincoln Journal-Star article errs in saying the bridge connects Richardson County … Continue reading →

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Aug 19

On old US 6

Posted on Monday, August 19, 2013, at 2:35 PM by Jeff

The Quad-City Times has an article on David Darby, who has led the effort to get old US 6 signed through parts of Iowa. It may be a little much to say he “found the old route through all these towns … Continue reading →

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Aug 18

A Diagonal, not The Diagonal

Posted on Sunday, August 18, 2013, at 11:15 AM by Jeff

June 21, 2013: South of Victor on the original River to River Road. (The name is for the lettered street system.)

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Aug 08

US 30/218 interchange still an option after all

Posted on Thursday, August 8, 2013, at 1:35 PM by Jeff

The advance Project Statement for this week’s meeting about changes to the US 30/218 intersection in Benton County didn’t mention an interchange, but the large maps  available include two options: An interchange with ramps in the northwest and southeast quadrants, … Continue reading →

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Aug 05

30/218 intersection now planned as J-turn

Posted on Monday, August 5, 2013, at 12:25 PM by Jeff

In a reversal from years of work, the Iowa DOT appears to have scrapped or at least put on hold plans to build an interchange at the intersection of US 30 and US 218 (the Youngville Station corner). Instead, based … Continue reading →

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Aug 03

Route 66 photo gallery

Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2013, at 4:40 PM by Jeff

The Denver Post did this back in November; it’s a good way to waste some time.

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Jul 13

Lincoln Highway in Pottawattamie County

Posted on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 10:45 AM by Jeff

June 22, 2013 This is what’s left of the Honey Creek Cut, in public view anyway. At the time, it was much deeper and considered a notable work of engineering. However, the cut was bypassed by the end of the … Continue reading →

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Jul 12

Lincoln Highway in Carroll County

Posted on Friday, July 12, 2013, at 1:40 PM by Jeff

July 5, 2013: In downtown Carroll, the city erected special Lincoln Highway pillars at intersections between 3rd Street and the courthouse. One has a time capsule. (Just because I skipped a day doesn’t mean I should skip a county. Oops!)

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