April 2018
AMES, Iowa – April 30, 2018 – Time is running short to register for Iowa’s annual Motorcycle Safety Forum to be held Friday, May 11 at the Holiday Day Inn - Airport Conference Center in Des Moines. To register, go to https://iowadot.gov/mvd/motorcycle/motorcycle-safety-forum. To attend, you must register before midnight on May 3. There will be no on-site registrations accepted the day of the event. The annual event is hosted by the Iowa Department of Transportation, Iowa Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau...
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa – April 27, 2018 – Work on the two-year Iowa 58/Viking Road interchange project in Cedar Falls continues. New traffic patterns on Viking Road will begin Tuesday morning May 1, weather permitting, and continue until the end of the 2018 construction season, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s New Hampton construction office. Both directions of Viking Road traffic will be placed in a head-to-head traffic pattern in the westbound lanes until mid-summer. At that time, the...
AMES, Iowa – April 27, 2018 – The Iowa Department of Transportation issues the following statement on the Supreme Court ruling regarding the regulation of automated traffic enforcement (ATE) systems that was released earlier today: We respect and uphold the Court’s decision, which places regulation of ATE systems in the hands of the legislature. Based on the decision, the three cities involved in the litigation (Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, and Muscatine) may immediately resume operation of the cameras we ordered...
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa – April 26, 2018 – Work on the two-year Iowa 58/Viking Road interchange project in Cedar Falls continues. New traffic patterns will begin Monday morning, April 30, and continue until the end of the 2018 construction season, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s New Hampton construction office. Both directions of traffic on Iowa 58 will be in a head-to-head traffic pattern in the southbound lanes until late November. Both directions of Viking Road traffic will be...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – April 26, 2018 – The on-ramp from Sixth Street Southwest to westbound U.S. 30 and the off-ramp from westbound U.S. 30 to Sixth Street will be closed over the weekend starting at 8 p.m. Friday, April 27, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Cedar Rapids construction office. The construction work will allow crews to strengthen the shoulders and prepare for a deck overlay on the westbound U.S. 30 bridge. The ramps should be...
MASON CITY, Iowa – April 26, 2018 – Work continues on the Iowa 3 reconstruction project in Waverly. Replacement of the railroad crossing on Iowa 3 near 12th Street NW will require closing roadway to traffic beginning Monday morning, April 30, until Friday, May 18, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Mason City construction office. During this closure, traffic will be detoured around the work zone using 10th Street SW and 4th Street SW. The Iowa DOT...
AMES, Iowa – April 26, 2018 – The Iowa Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing Tuesday, May 8, between 5 and 7 p.m. at the Charles Briggs Civic Center, 317 N. Water St., in Wapello. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the proposed improvements of U.S. 61 in Louisa County from 0.5 mile north of Iowa 78 to north of 130th Street and to gather public feedback on the environmental documentation, preferred alternative, and potential impacts...
CHARITON, Iowa – April 25, 2018 – Northbound traffic on Interstate 35 in Decatur County will be shifted to a head-to-head pattern in the southbound lanes beginning at 7 a.m. Friday, May 4, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Chariton construction office. The traffic pattern change is necessary to allow for grading and paving of the northbound lanes from just north of U.S. 69 to just south of Iowa 2. The work zone is expected to be in place...
MASON CITY, Iowa – April 24, 2018 – Traffic on westbound Iowa 122 in Mason City will be shifted to the eastbound lanes between Monroe and Carolina avenues beginning Friday, April 27, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Mason City construction office. Beginning Friday afternoon, westbound traffic will be moved into a head-to-head traffic pattern in the eastbound lanes. A center turn lane will be in place from South Jefferson Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue. The westbound lane...
CHEROKEE, Iowa – April 23, 2018 – Road construction work on U.S. 71, from Iowa 3 to Iowa 10 in Buena Vista County will require closing the roadway to traffic beginning at 7:30 a.m. Monday, May 7, until Friday, Aug. 3, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Cherokee construction office. Motorists will be directed around the work zone on a signed detour using Iowa 3 and Buena Vista County roads M-44 and C-13. OMG Midwest is the...