December 2001: The west end of IA 100 has looked like this, a half-finished interchange at Edgewood Road in Cedar Rapids, since 1985. That’s going to start changing over the next month. Photo by Jason Hancock.
After seven years, it looks like it’s time to update my IA 100 page. In 2007, I wrote that a western extension might be finished in 2016 (HA), and no changes had been seen at Edgewood Road.
However, the picture attached to this Cedar Rapids Gazette story shows that neither of those are true anymore. Today’s creation of an on-site detour for Edgewood Road at IA 100 is the latest sign of tangible progress for the long-awaited bypass.
The ramps that were built in 1985 will not be a part of the finished expressway; the second SPUI in Iowa will be here instead. The story says there will be “removal and replacement” of the bridge but if you look, it would appear the crossing was just graded earth.