An e-mail sent out last week to subscribers of the Council Bluffs Interstate System project is inviting the public to a celebration today (Sept. 18). The event is to mark the (almost) completion of the I-29/480 interchange, which had not been touched in a major way since its opening in the 1960s.
According to the e-mail, the celebration is 4-7 PM at the River’s Edge Park parking lot, which is north of I-480 but can only be reached via taking the 9th Avenue exit and going past Harrah’s casino. For southbound I-29, thanks to the new project, traffic has to exit way back before Avenue G and follow the frontage road.
(Oh sure, I can get an e-mail for this event but not the I-80/380 ribbon cutting. Bah.)