2018 will get the completion of not one, but two major Iowa highway projects that were decades in the making.
The completed IA 100 beltway around western Cedar Rapids will have a celebration Saturday, the Gazette reports. There will be a ribbon-cutting and a chance for the public to walk/ride the new segment (though, presumably, not the ramps to/from US 30, which as of Thanksgiving night did not yet have IA 100 signs). The road could open to traffic next Monday.
It’s a capstone that deserves a party … that I will have trouble attending because I have to work.