Highway Page Updates

This is a list of updates to all of my highway pages so everyone can see what is new or what has changed since they last visited. The most recent updates are listed first.

April 26:

• While in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area earlier this month I noticed that signs for IA 165 in Carter Lake have been taken down. I noted this in the listing, but I did not change the status of the route since it still appears on the 2008 state transportation map. (If you have any additional information on IA 165's status, please e-mail me.)
• Last September AASHTO's Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering approved a new Business US 34 in Fairfield that will replace the existing US 34 once the bypass opens later this year.
• Also on the subject of US 34, Jeff Morrison found out that the new US 34 bridge over the Missouri River would be part of a westward extension of the four-lane segment near Glenwood that is scheduled for completion by the fall of 2013.
• Freeway Junctions has completed its expansion into eastern Nebraska with four new exit lists: I-80 between US 77 in Lincoln and the Missouri River, I-180 in Lincoln, US 77 in Lincoln, and US 275/US 6 between Fremont and Omaha. I also updated the US 75 North Freeway exit list and added links from other exit lists where appropriate.
• I also updated the Links page.

April 2: The I-235 exit list has been updated to reflect speed limit changes that took effect today.

March 30:

• The Plattsmouth Toll Bridge that carries US 34 between Plattsmouth, NE, and Mills County has a new owner: the city of Plattsmouth, which purchased the bridge for $1 last November 30. (Source: Lincoln Journal-Star article, via Jeff Morrison) The bridge will close between May and November for repairs.
• According to this story in the Washington Evening Journal, construction has begun on a new interchange of US 218/IA 27 at County Road G36 north of Ainsworth that is expected to be finished this fall. I added that interchange to the US 218 exit list as well as the interchange at MO 27 and US 61 that is under construction as part of the last Avenue of the Saints segment in Missouri that is scheduled for completion this summer.
• I added three photos and replaced three photos in the Des Moines Photo Gallery.

February 29: There hasn't been much going on lately, hence the lack of updates, but here are a couple:

• The 2008 state transportation map is available online now. The only update related to the map was for IA 404 (II), which may apply to the black line that is the former segment of IA 60 through Sibley.
• I made a minor change to the Highways of Des Moines page noting that the I-235 reconstruction has been finished.

February 3: I added terminus photo links for three business routes that were created in 2007: US 63 in Ottumwa, US 75 in Le Mars, and IA 60 in Sheldon.

January 12: I have launched a new page for historic highway alignments in Iowa City. Links have been added from the front page and the appropriate highway listings.

January 1:

• It's hard to believe, but I launched this site ten years ago January 8, and I have placed a 10th anniversary banner on the front page. For a blast from the past: here is the original announcement that I made to misc.transport.road (don't click on the link in that message -- it's 404), while this is the earliest archived version of the site that I could find on the Wayback Machine. I have moved the site three times since its original launch: from Geocities to the now-defunct Xoom/NBCi.com in January 1999, then to Internet Navigator in May 2001, and finally to Mediacom Online in October 2002. I launched the iowahighways.org domain name at the beginning of 2004.
  
  Things have changed in the last decade: more four-lane highways exist now than they did in 1998, I-235 was completely rebuilt, and the state highway system is smaller now thanks mostly to the decommissionings of 2003. This site has also grown over the past decade: the highway listings have a lot more historical information thanks to extensive research from Jeff Morrison and myself, Freeway Junctions now covers all of Iowa and parts of Illinois and Nebraska, and the Photo Gallery has grown exponentially from the handful of eastern Iowa photos that I had when I launched that section in the fall of 1998.
  
  Thanks go to everyone who has contributed information and photos over the years. My life has changed over the past decade as well, and while other things have kept me busy recently, I will continue to update this site periodically.
• Austin Draude notes that the Isle of Capri casino in Waterloo is now signed along US 20 and I-380.

Past updates:

• 2007 (second half)
• 2007 (first half)
• 2006 (second half)
• 2006 (first half)
• 2005 (second half)
• 2005 (first half)
• 2004 (second half)
• 2004 (first half)
• 2003 (second half)
• 2003 (first half)
• 2002 (second half)
• 2002 (first half)
• 2001
• 2000

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