{"id":4358,"date":"2014-01-03T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2014-01-02T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T05:59:03","slug":"ia-2-no-longer-runs-through-fort-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/ia-2-no-longer-runs-through-fort-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 2 no longer runs through Fort Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDecember 18, 2006:<\/strong> Near the foot of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad bridge across the Mississippi River in Fort Madison, all three components of this sign assembly have changed: US 61 is now Business 61, the Hiawatha Pioneer Trail has been deleted, and IA 2 now ends on the west side of town.<\/em><\/p>\n

Buried in the Iowa Transportation Commission’s approved revisions to the 2014-18 five-year plan<\/a>\u00a0(PDF), and noted in a line at the commission’s Nov. 12 meeting<\/a>, was this line item:<\/p>\n

Transfer of Jurisdiction \u2013 Iowa 2 in Fort Madison<\/em><\/p>\n

Iowa’s fourth-longest east-west state highway<\/a> no longer runs from state line to state line. I have received word that the route has been truncated to end at the US 61 bypass on the west side of Fort Madison. In addition, Business 61\/old 61 north of IA 2 has also been transferred.<\/p>\n

There’s an Iowa transportation quirk that has enabled this transfer to happen: The state\u00a0does not own<\/strong>\u00a0the auto\/rail bridge across the Mississippi River. It was constructed in 1927 for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and is now a BNSF\/Amtrak line. Thus, the state can turn over the entire route of old US 61 without leaving an “orphan bridge”.<\/p>\n

Except for the section between 35th and 48th streets, US 61 and IA 2 (formerly IA 3) always ran along Avenue L and Avenue H. They changed at 18th Street, and later also at 20th with a switch to one-ways. Avenue L is important to Iowa history because it runs on the easternmost extent of the Sullivan Line<\/a>, used to delineate the Iowa-Missouri border west of the Des Moines River and the Half-Breed Tract in Lee County. The rural part of the line is still used today to split<\/a> “North Lee County” and “South Lee County” jurisdiction because both Fort Madison and Keokuk are county seats.<\/p>\n

The IA 2 page will be updated to reflect this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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