Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous

Jun 15

An important meeting for Lincoln Highway history

Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

July 5, 2013: The Lincoln Highway (now Story County Road E41) passes over US 65 on the east side of Colo. Note the art deco styling of the bridge abutments. The Iowa DOT is considering removing an overpass. It happens … Continue reading →

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May 25

Bridge timeline extended by a decade

Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at 10:01 AM by Jeff

About eight years ago, I added an “Iowa border bridge timeline” into the Annex section. It has a bar chart of Iowa’s bridges across the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. At the time, I stopped the lines in 2010, knowing the … Continue reading →

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May 11

North Carolina wants two more 2-digit interstates

Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Two weeks from now, the semi-annual AASHTO conference will be held in Des Moines. (I thought about trying to go but the upper-three-digit cost of admission put a stop to that.) The agenda for the numbering committee has been released, … Continue reading →

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May 03

Jefferson Highway book published

Posted on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Jefferson Highway, the much-less-known north-south counterpart to the Lincoln Highway in Iowa, is getting its time in the spotlight. There is now a book about the route, which went from Winnipeg to New Orleans (“Pine to Palm”). In Iowa, … Continue reading →

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Apr 25

Forty years of Iowa route descriptions posted online

Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

OH HO, what do we have here? Transfer of jurisdiction agreement number TJ‑318‑0(3)‑‑2M‑86, between the city of Clutier and the Iowa Department of Transportation, transferred that portion of Iowa 318 from Front Street north and east to the east corporation … Continue reading →

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Apr 15

Page update: Muscatine-a-palooza

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2016, at 10:01 AM by Jeff

June 8, 2015: New, larger highway shields at the US 61/IA 38 intersection, and their arrows beneath, conform to revised MUTCD guidelines. In my opinion, it’s not an improvement. I’ve added photos taken in April and June 2015 to the … Continue reading →

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Apr 14

Wyoming bumping two-lane roads to 70 mph

Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Parts of US 20 and US 30 in the eastern Rockies are getting an upgrade not in lanes, but in limits. The Wyoming Department of Transportation is phasing in 70-mph limits on lightly traveled rural highways this spring. Among the … Continue reading →

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Apr 06

Arkansas’ I-555 has blueprint for Des Moines beltway

Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

On March 11, Arkansas got the fictional phone prefix interstate designation it has been seeking for a long time. US 63 from I-55 northwest to Jonesboro, which was upgraded to four lanes in the 2000s, officially became Interstate 555. Jonesboro … Continue reading →

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Apr 04

Videos, slides detail Council Bluffs plans for 2016

Posted on Monday, April 4, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

About 10 days ago the Iowa DOT held a meeting in Council Bluffs covering the upcoming construction for the decade-plus-long reconstruction and expansion of I-29 and I-80 there. The step-by-step meeting with some videos starts here; a PDF is here. … Continue reading →

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Feb 27

Top ‘structurally deficient’ bridges on replacement cycle

Posted on Saturday, February 27, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Getting attention this week was an update to a type of report that gets issued in various forms semi-regularly since the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis in 2007, regarding the condition of bridges nationwide. One-fifth of Iowa’s bridges, over 5000 … Continue reading →

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