Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

On the Transportation Commission agenda for tomorrow is this line item: Transfer of Jurisdiction – Portion of Virginia Street from Sioux City to Iowa DOT. This has to refer to the newly built Virginia Street in the area of the I-29 … Continue reading →

I’ve added photos taken at the beginning and end of what were not Iowa-specific trips, but rather the start and end of longer ones, last summer. Here is a list of major and minor additions to pages in chronological order … Continue reading →

The gribblenation.com website is one of the older surviving roadgeek-related websites, currently with five contributors. One of the contributors, who had very little experience in Iowa, drove a mix of old and new US 20 across the state last year … Continue reading →

While doing research I discovered that Park Street on the northwest side of Perry was still its original concrete with original curbs. Was. Google imagery showed a brand new asphalt overlay on top of that road for its 1-mile length. … Continue reading →

June 3, 2014: First Street in Cedar Falls, presently IA 57, is the original route of US 20 through that city. This is at the intersection with Franklin/Center streets, old US 218. I have plugged Bryan Farr’s work to promote … Continue reading →

Remember the prolonged struggle between Wapello and the Iowa DOT, and Mediapolis and the Iowa DOT, where the communities are fighting tooth and nail to get multiple exits on a four-lane US 61 and the DOT is having none of … Continue reading →

September 7, 2006: This photo looking south clearly shows the offset intersection of IA 9 and IA 76 in Waukon. Until 1968, IA 9 turned right (west). The intersection at the core of Waukon has always been a bit off. … Continue reading →

June 24, 2017: Is this an excuse to post one of the best “welcome to” sign pairs in Iowa? Possibly. At the end of 1939, the expansion of Iowa’s highway system abruptly slowed down at number 372, a spur to … Continue reading →

The only interesting development from last week’s Transportation Commission meeting was a transfer of jurisdiction. The segment in question is a mile or so of US 65 that was left behind when the interchange in Jasper County was built. You can … Continue reading →