Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

Nov 07

Why the US 30-US 151 trumpet is backwards

In the southeast corner of the Cedar Rapids metro area, the US 30 expressway comes to an end (for another year, anyway) while US 151 heads north. This is not the original routing for 151; it was rerouted away from … Continue reading

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Oct 31

Evil has come to Fort Dodge

October 20, 2018: …but when the roadgeek turned around from this view on 2nd Avenue South in Fort Dodge, the street had vanished! It was a ghost sign, disembodied from the route it once served! While doing an online scouting … Continue reading

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Oct 22

US 20 finally open to four lanes across Iowa

October 19, 2018: Acting Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg (center) holds the ribbon to mark the completion of four-lane US 20 along with a host of government officials and members of the US 20 Corridor Association. Holstein, Iowa, October 19 — … Continue reading

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Oct 19

A celebration of Highway 20

Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 2017 America’s longest highway begins in the cradle of the Revolution. From the five-way intersection about 2 miles west of the center of Boston you can see the lights for left field of Fenway Park, on … Continue reading

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Oct 17

After decades of waiting, a complete ribbon of highway

October 20, 2002: Concrete for new US 20 ends at the Grundy/Hardin county line, as seen from the B Avenue/Z Avenue bridge. A full gallery of that fall’s construction can be seen here. ============== U.S. 20 between Sioux City and … Continue reading

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Oct 16

The political effect, or not, of a ribbon-cutting

November 12, 2008: Gov. Chet Culver addresses the crowd at the opening of the US 34 Fairfield bypass, completing the expressway between Des Moines and Burlington first proposed 40 years earlier (although, as originally planned, it used IA 92 to Oskaloosa). … Continue reading

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Oct 15

One of US 20’s birth announcements

Highway Markers Go Up This Week In Ida County and elsewhere over the entire state of Iowa the handsome new state highway signs are being erected this week. In some localities, the county engineers began putting them in place Saturday, … Continue reading

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Oct 09

Boondocks travel station closing

In the same weekend that we will celebrate the completion of four-lane US 20 across Iowa, a different part of US 20 history will be shutting down. The Boondocks Cafe, truck stop and motel, which opened June 5, 1973, will … Continue reading

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Oct 01

Lincoln Highway bridge $5,000 from goal

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Aug 22

Long-idle southeast Iowa pages get new photos

June 18, 2018: Old IA 79 remains labeled “DMC Hwy 79” but Des Moines County changed it to J20 — while not doing anything to Old US 34, which runs east from here. Middletown prettied up the intersection with a … Continue reading

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