{"id":8737,"date":"2017-05-16T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2017-05-15T01:46:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T06:46:54","slug":"highlights-analysis-of-2018-22-five-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/highlights-analysis-of-2018-22-five-year-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights, analysis of 2018-22 five-year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/July09\/30_218_wb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 8, 2009:<\/strong> The Youngville Cafe will be preserved when an interchange for US 30 and US 218 is built in 2018. Ramps will be in the northwest and southeast quadrants, with a north-south bridge. An access road to the cafe will run from 218.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week at the Iowa Transportation Commission&#8217;s May meeting \u2014 the same meeting that saw John Putney of Gladbrook elected chairman \u2014 the draft of the five-year transportation program was released. The highway stuff is at the end\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/program_management\/DRAFT-2018-2022-5YrProg.pdf\">of this large PDF.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the ongoing projects \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2017\/05\/draft-fy-2018-2022-iowa-transportation-improvement-program-presented-to-the-iowa-transportation-comm.html\">there&#8217;s a list<\/a>, but somehow &#8220;U.&#8221; was eliminated from the &#8220;U.S.&#8221; lines \u2014 some new ones have made it. A rundown of the big stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four-lane US 30 in Tama\/Benton counties is specified as benefiting from the gas tax increase. Upgrading the 27 miles, with two interchanges, will cost nearly $225 million. The Tama County part will come first, in 2018\/20, followed by Benton County in 2021-22. However, the US 30\/218 interchange is scheduled for next year!<\/li>\n<li>The IA 58\/Viking Road SPUI is set for next year too.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing but erosion control on US 20 in Ida and Sac counties \u2014<strong> because the four-lane will be done!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The mega-project in Council Bluffs continues throughout the years in the plan, but there&#8217;s light at the end of the tunnel in Sioux City, where the I-29 rebuild is scheduled to wrap up at the end of this decade.<\/li>\n<li>The rest (and vast majority) of the I-74 bridge is in this plan.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/government\/road-projects-coming-before-big-i-80i-380-interchange-overhaul-20170506\">I-80\/380 interchange replacement<\/a> will begin in earnest in 2019, after the Forevergreen Road exit is built.<\/li>\n<li>The Mount Vernon\/Lisbon bypass will be paved in 2019 and old 30 fixed up in 2020 before being turned over.<\/li>\n<li>The rest of new IA 100 will be done in the next couple of years.<\/li>\n<li>An I-380 exit at Tower Terrace Road is planned for 2022. There is a lot\u00a0of stuff for Linn County in this plan.<\/li>\n<li>That I-80 meeting near Moscow this week was about a bridge replacement and paving scheduled to start in 2022. There&#8217;s also a bridge replacement\/grade-and-pave project marked for I-80 in Dallas County between the US 169 and Van Meter exits; it will be interesting to see if that&#8217;s set for four lanes or six.<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading US 61 to four lanes between Burlington and Mediapolis has a drawn-out timeline, spanning all five years; a Mediapolis bypass isn&#8217;t in the timeline yet.<\/li>\n<li>The Southwest Arterial will have bridges and grading in 2018 with paving (and completion!) in 2019. US 52 will be rerouted and IA 32 decommissioned at that time. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofdubuque.org\/DocumentCenter\/View\/32947\">this update from the city of Dubuque<\/a>. Also, the stoplight at Menards just south of Old Highway Road <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphherald.com\/news\/tri-state\/article_16be2557-da2e-52fe-845a-d432a8b234c1.html \">will be removed next year<\/a>, and the intersection blocked, after a frontage road is built, the <em>Telegraph-Herald<\/em> reports.<\/li>\n<li>Also in Dubuque County, US 20 will get an interchange at Swiss Valley Road \u2014 this is where the four-lane changes direction. See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/smoothing-out-swiss-valley-road-curve\/\">this blog post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The eastbound I-80 rest area at Victor, which for decades was a welcome center in the middle of the state, will be replaced in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>The US 65\/IA 117\/IA 330 interchange will be done next year.<\/li>\n<li>Reconfiguration of the I-80\/IA 141 interchange will mostly take place in 2019 and 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, among all the little projects, US 63 is supposed to get &#8220;pavement widening&#8221; between Toledo and Traer next year. That&#8217;s interesting. I don&#8217;t think that north-south part of 63 has been resurfaced in my lifetime. The shoulders are plenty wide, so perhaps the &#8220;widening&#8221; is adding the half-width grooved asphalt edging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 8, 2009: The Youngville Cafe will be preserved when an interchange for US 30 and US 218 is built in 2018. Ramps will be in the northwest and southeast quadrants, with a north-south bridge. 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