April 6, 2008: BGS on I-29/80 for IA 192 at the 24th Street Bridge, the first construction related to the massive expansion of I-80 in Council Bluffs that’s still going on today.
IA 192 has an interesting history. The Iowa Highway Commission put the number in Council Bluffs from downtown to Lake Manawa State Park on June 24, 1931, a month after the number 241 had been assigned to the route. (The change was not explained in the archives.) IA 192 remained in that general vicinity for decades, but the exact alignment changed, especially after construction of South Expressway and its extension along 16th Street/old US 75 to I-29.
And then it disappeared. From the end of 1975 until mid-1980, there was no IA 192; it had been turned over to the city. It was reborn among the few cases where the state added jurisdiction in the Great Decommissioning.
The northern part of 192 was turned over to Council Bluffs, along with West Broadway, on May 1, 2016. The Kanesville Boulevard segment of US 6 was renumbered IA 906 — unimaginative, but at least a 9XX. Because that wasn’t signed, IA 192 was essentially a spur from the interstate to downtown Council Bluffs. I wondered if it wouldn’t be turned over because of the viaducts involved.
But on Tuesday, the DOT published IA 192’s obituary. The item says “a portion” but the segment given is all that remained of the route.
The Commission approved the transfer of jurisdiction of a portion of Iowa 192 to the city of Council Bluffs. The transfer segment lies within the corporation limits of Council Bluffs on Iowa 192 from the north limits of the I-29/80 interchange north to Iowa 906/West Kanesville Boulevard and includes the one-way pairs, a total length of 1.97 miles.
If anyone is going through Council Bluffs, let me know when the signs are down.