{"id":15088,"date":"2023-08-14T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2023-08-09T22:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T03:34:24","slug":"ia-906-decommissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/ia-906-decommissioned\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 906 decommissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15103\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/6_80wb_wb_cb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/6_80wb_wb_cb.jpg 540w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/6_80wb_wb_cb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 24, 2019:<\/strong> This oversized US 6 shield was how the DOT initially signed US 6&#8217;s reroute onto I-80 on the east end of Council Bluffs. Straight ahead was IA 906, aka Kanesville Boulevard in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Department of Transportation turned IA 906 over to the city of Council Bluffs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2023\/08\/actions-taken-at-iowa-transportation-commission-tuesday-aug-8.html\">at its meeting last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The unsigned route was what had been US 6 from downtown Council Bluffs to I-80. The state <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/broadway-viaduct-area-part-of-council-bluffs-transfer-of-jurisdiction\/\">turned over US 6 west of downtown<\/a>, aka West Broadway, in 2016, although the exact date became a bit fungible. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/analytics\/PrimaryRteDescrips\/Pottawattamie\/IA%20192.htm\">official route description<\/a> says May 16. My blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/council-bluffs-highway-decommissioning-may-1\/\">three weeks before that<\/a> thought it would be May 1. Signs changed later.) Around the same time, but <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/ia-192-twice-merely-dead-is-really-most-sincerely-dead\/\">not all at the same time<\/a>, the state turned over <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/ia-192-is-dead\/\">the entirety of IA 192<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kanesville Boulevard section of US 6 became IA 906 as US 6 was rerouted onto I-29 and I-80 to bypass Council Bluffs. Technically, US 6 follows I-29 only from I-480 to the east I-29\/80 split (in the local lanes), and then shifts onto I-80 heading northeast.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of Council Bluffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2023\/08\/traffic-pattern-changes-in-store-for-council-bluffs-next-week.html\">a DOT press release says<\/a> that new lanes on I-29 are opening, requiring lane closures. The restriping will be complete Tuesday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@43.5347216,-96.6265887,4165m\/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu\">The interstate has been detoured<\/a> onto the newly built north-south frontage roads that intersect West Broadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 2019: This oversized US 6 shield was how the DOT initially signed US 6&#8217;s reroute onto I-80 on the east end of Council Bluffs. Straight ahead was IA 906, aka Kanesville Boulevard in the city. The Iowa Department &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/ia-906-decommissioned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15105,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions\/15105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}