Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

Not Iowa, but still relevant to Midwestern roadgeeks and the reporter who sounds like she’s one herself. EDIT: I was going to embed the video but it autoplays. Sorry. Video’s at the link.

July 29, 2017: The Iowa Civilian Conservation Corps Museum in Backbone State Park shows off the contributions the New Deal program made to Iowa’s state parks and natural resources. Backbone, Iowa’s first state park, celebrates its centennial next year. At … Continue reading →

I raided Jason Hancock’s Flickr galleries (with his permission) to see if there were any gems that could augment these pages. They were taken at various points in the past decade, but they’re new here. At least one new photo, … Continue reading →

October 3, 2018: One of the new generation of signs near one of Iowa’s two quadplex routes, the Mount Pleasant bypass. Blessedly, the Series D font is appropriate for the wide shields, which is the case much less often than it … Continue reading →

I don’t know if the Iowa DOT is attempting to impose or merely strongly suggesting that small cities get their main thoroughfares changed from four lanes (two in each direction) to three (one in each direction with a center turn … Continue reading →

When a major highway project happens in a big city anymore (and by “big” I mean “pro-team caliber”), the news is notable precisely because it doesn’t happen that often. Last year, for example, we had the long-long-long-term completion of Interstate … Continue reading →

The previous post talked about a bridge on Correctionville Road being the last rural remnant of very early paving on the road that became US 20 in Woodbury County. There’s one urban remnant, too, whose time is limited but we … Continue reading →