May 9, 2018: The on-ramp from eastbound State Street, once northbound US 67, to eastbound/southbound I-74 has been temporarily retained for access to the old bridge, which as of December is only for downtown Moline.
An item from this month’s Iowa Transportation Committee meeting mentioned transferring “Old US 67” in Bettendorf. This refers to a couple of pieces of State Street, which had been northbound US 67 in downtown Bettendorf’s one-ways. The new 67 curves up just enough to be beside the opposite direction and have a diamond interchange with the new I-74, then splits away.
Early in the design process, State was going to be a through street under the new bridges, but that changed. The west-side remaining segment runs east from 10th Street to a dead-end past 13th, including the spot of the on-ramp shown above. The east-side remaining segment connects 15th and 16th streets but is mostly a parking lot for “The Bridges Lofts,” trendy housing on a site that used to be the Twin Bridges Motel.