An update and new notice (via a weekend roadgeek meet) about projects near Marion:
Linn County’s oldest active bridge is going to be replaced, as this blog post covered earlier. But there’s good and interesting news: The bridge isn’t being demolished, it’s being moved! From the Linn County Secondary Roads Department:
The project was let on November 23, 2021 and was awarded to Peterson Contractors Inc. (PCI) for a cost of $184,373.00. The project consists of salvaging and relocating the historic truss bridge on Bertram Road over Indian Creek. The bridge will be relocated to the Indian Creek Nature Center on Otis Road and will be reused as a pedestrian bridge.
Also, the IA 100 bypass is getting another stoplight:
This project was let on September 14, 2021 and was awarded to Boomerang Corp of Anamosa, IA for a total cost of $727,903.95. This project will install traffic lights at the intersection of S 31st Street and Highway 100. The contractor plans to start in early June.
This will be the sixth stoplight on 100 between Business 100 (1st Avenue) and US 151. It’s the last four-way intersection on that segment that didn’t have a light.