{"id":12161,"date":"2020-05-29T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2020-05-27T17:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T22:16:36","slug":"notes-on-2021-25-highway-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/notes-on-2021-25-highway-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on 2021-25 highway plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Transportation Commission released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2020\/05\/draft-fy-2021-2025-iowa-transportation-improvement-program-presented-to-the-iowa-transportation-comm.html\">draft 2021-25 five-year construction plan<\/a> at its meeting earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can&#8217;t really call it in analysis if I&#8217;m just condensing the existing information? Anyway, here are current estimated completions (in fiscal years) for the big stuff, with some extrapolations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Council Bluffs interstate project: Mostly completed in 2022, although I believe six-laning I-80 southwest of US 6 remains in future plans<\/li>\n<li>I-29: Rebuilding IA 141 exit in 2023<\/li>\n<li>I-35: Six-laned between Ankeny and IA 210 in 2025; beginning of work on the east mixmaster in 2023; grade-for-six-pave-for-four between IA 92 and near the Cumming exit<\/li>\n<li>I-74 bridge replacement complete in 2021, removal of old bridges in 2022<\/li>\n<li>I-80: Six-laned between the east side of Iowa City and West Branch in 2023 (the present EB lanes will be the median area); six-laned across the Skunk River (or only one direction?) in 2022 (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/jasper-county-bridge-replacement-prepares-for-six-lane-i-80\/\">see post from 2015<\/a>); six-laned through the IA 146 interchange in 2022; six-laned from the former Alice&#8217;s Road to Jordan Creek Parkway in 2025; six-laned across the North\/South Raccoon River in 2022\/24; rebuilding 1st Avenue exit in Coralville in 2024<\/li>\n<li>I-80\/380 interchange work through 2023<\/li>\n<li>I-380: New Tower Terrace Road exit in 2022, redone Boyson Road exit in 2025<\/li>\n<li>US 18\/218 interchange at Floyd in 2022<\/li>\n<li>US 30 four-laned in the rest of Benton County in 2022-23; IA 21 interchange in 2022; freeway conversion between Ames and Nevada in 2024; Missouri Valley bypass in late 2020s (grading 2025).<\/li>\n<li>US 61 four-laned from Burlington to one mile north of H40\/south end of the Mediapolis bypass in 2021; Mediapolis bypass in 2024; north of Mediapolis to north of IA 78 (with new interchange) in 2026.<\/li>\n<li>US 63 Oskaloosa bypass in 2024, from the Leighton corner to 210th Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2014\/12\/us-63-in-mahaska-county-dec-16-2014.html\">a decade after the first proposal<\/a><\/li>\n<li>US 218 slight relocation\/conversion to controlled-access freeway between Janesville and Waverly in 2025<\/li>\n<li>IA 9 Mississippi River bridge replacement in 2024<\/li>\n<li>IA 17 relocation east of Boone in 2022<\/li>\n<li>IA 92 reconstruction between US 218 and IA 70 in 2023<\/li>\n<li>IA 150 Urbana curve changed to four-way intersection in 2022<\/li>\n<li>Business US 20 (Fort Dodge): Kenyon Road bridge replacement over the Des Moines River in 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Transportation Commission released its draft 2021-25 five-year construction plan at its meeting earlier this month. I guess I can&#8217;t really call it in analysis if I&#8217;m just condensing the existing information? Anyway, here are current estimated completions (in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/notes-on-2021-25-highway-plan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}