This was in one of the links of the map post, but I thought I’d break it out: The House approved a bill that would add the segment of US 63 between Ottumwa and Waterloo to the Commercial and Industrial Network. So far, the roads with this designation are identical to the ones enrolled in the National Highway System. All that a layperson would notice with this is that the rest of 63 would be red on the state map instead of black.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, although the Kirksville bypass is done, the 60-odd miles between there and Ottumwa will remain a bottleneck. KTVO has a report<\/a> on some progress there \u2014 very, very preliminary progress. (I think they went a little overboard on the tagging under the video.) And Kirksville is already thinking<\/a> about expected development on new 63 \u2014 so in 30 years we’ll have to do it all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was in one of the links of the map post, but I thought I’d break it out: The House approved a bill that would add the segment of US 63 between Ottumwa and Waterloo to the Commercial and Industrial … Continue reading