Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

Jun 05

Replacement of US 63 bridge over Mississippi River begins

Posted on Monday, June 5, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Not in Iowa, but related to this website because it involves US 63 and the Mississippi River: Last month, the Minnesota Department of Transportation began construction on a replacement for the US 63 bridge at Red Wing. Story: KARE (warning: … Continue reading →

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Jun 01

A slight extension of this website’s coverage

Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Blog post 2000! With all the Iowa highway information newly available online, there’s plenty of work I can do. I’ve been doing some of that by editing the pages with the most important changes (or obvious corrections). I announced a … Continue reading →

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May 19

Arkansas’ abuse of highway numbers continues

Posted on Friday, May 19, 2017, at 10:05 AM by Jeff

Buried in the continuing resolution that funds the federal government through the end of the fiscal year were two interstate designations. One is designating the US 67 freeway from Little Rock to Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, as Interstate 57. However, there … Continue reading →

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May 17

Statewide bridge database available online

Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

September 1, 2009: Despite being less than 50 years old, the IA 136 bridge over the Mississippi River at Clinton is classified as poor condition and functionally obsolete. Without any fanfare, the state has put a valuable resource online: A … Continue reading →

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May 05

Overhead flashers to be removed from state intersections

Posted on Friday, May 5, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

March 22, 2003: Former south end of IA 341 at US 18 in Ruthven. The DOT appears to be phasing out overhead amber and red lights at intersections across rural Iowa. Two news stories from opposite corners of the state — … Continue reading →

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Mar 27

Some date edits, and a highway that was legally dead

Posted on Monday, March 27, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Going through the legal descriptions of Iowa highways — just the state ones, not the US routes — have merited some editing to some pages. Mostly, these are fixes to time spans, now that we have dates of Highway Commission … Continue reading →

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Mar 24

Historic highway meetings in Denison and Denison

Posted on Friday, March 24, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The modern-day Jefferson Highway Association, dedicated to promoting the 1910s north-south Pine to Palm Highway, is having its 2017 convention in Denison, Texas. The JH ran through Iowa mostly on now-US 65 and 69, sharing the Lincoln Highway in Story … Continue reading →

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Mar 23

Links on IA 12 page fixed

Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 4, 2014: The national north end of US 77 is just across the border at I-29 in Sioux City. Well, this is embarrassing: When I moved the website from mac.com, I moved the locations of the IA 12 South … Continue reading →

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Mar 22

Closing off an ancient curve, and Centerville’s IA 60 history

Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

  Appanoose County in the 1948 (left/top) and 1951 Iowa Highway Commission state maps. Notice the non-existence of Lake Rathbun. Drake Avenue is shown as the north-south piece of IA 277, but it actually belonged to IA 60, as you will … Continue reading →

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Mar 04

Area man featured for longtime pursuit of weird accomplishment

Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2017, at 12:00 PM by Jeff

As you may have seen online, the Des Moines Register’s Kyle Munson interviewed me about my travels and wrote a column about it. He even called back to the 2001 essay I wrote as a member of the Register’s Young Adult … Continue reading →

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