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Category Archives: Highway Miscellaneous
May
15
IA 92 to be rerouted onto Muscatine bypass, IA 38
October 13, 2006: The first signs you see after IA 92 enters the state from Illinois are going to change this summer. A city route that has been a part of the Iowa highway system for more than nine decades … Continue reading
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May
14
Cedar Falls takes University Avenue for $20 million
November 21, 2001: The soon-to-be-former west end of unsigned IA 934, University Avenue in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. There are two big surprises in the DOT’s five-year plan, released Tuesday, and they both have to do with unloading urban arterial … Continue reading
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May
07
Beltway interstate more than changing signs
Do I need to explain this again, Greater Des Moines Partnership? I wrote a blog post on the Des Moines beltway back in September 2012, too. Talking with DC officials about making it an interstate is less important than getting … Continue reading
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May
06
Informational meeting on US 20 plans
The U.S. 20 Corridor Association met in Sac City (which is no longer directly on US 20), and the Fort Dodge Messenger has a report. The immediate next step in upgrading 20 to four lanes will be between Moville and … Continue reading
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May
05
I-74 project timeline presented
The Iowa DOT’s PIM site has put online the giant posters that were at an informational meeting last week. The file is a VERY large PDF. Everything through 2020 is laid out, but that includes nothing north of Middle Road … Continue reading
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Apr
30
University Avenue construction needed, but not wanted
KWWL has a(nother) story about the troublesome state of University Avenue — once US 218, now IA 934 — in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. A DOT employee says there are “negotiations” for transferring jurisdiction to the cities. At the same … Continue reading
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Apr
29
Arkansas replaced I-540 with I-49
August 7, 2010: Every I-540 shield in northwestern Arkansas north of I-40 was removed last week and replaced with I-49. Although there is no connection yet to I-49 in Missouri, and any construction south of I-40 will likely take decades … Continue reading
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Apr
26
The secret almost-histories of IA 401 and 412
The DOT’s document archive is a wealth of information, most of the dry engineering type, but also more about signs and construction maps. Through that, I discovered one thing I never knew and one I wondered about in Iowa’s 400-series … Continue reading
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Apr
11
More information on proposed Wapello bypass
The DOT meeting about US 61 in Wapello, which I referred to earlier this week, has been scheduled for April 24. The project information is already online (PDF). In that writeup we learn a little more about US 61 in … Continue reading
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Apr
08
Wapello bypass part of future US 61 plans
A report last week in the Muscatine Journal says that an option to expand US 61 to five lanes through the town of Wapello has been removed from consideration. Two alternatives use a western bypass. Building a four-lane US 61 … Continue reading
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