Articles Tagged: Infrastructure

City staff estimate there are roughly 60 vaults throughout downtown Cedar Rapids that are privately owned but stretch into and underneath the public right-of-way.

The interactive, near real-time map will show where the plows are and have been during significant winter weather events.

Watch as the 94-year old Black Hawk Bridge in Lansing, Iowa is impoded by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.

The implosion of the Black Hawk Bridge, a structure that for 94 years has provided transportation over the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa, has been delayed one day by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.

The Iowa City Council has approved an initial design concept to replace the Burlington Street Bridge and develop other infrastructure under and around the structure, which serves as a major connector between the west side of Iowa City and downtown.

Stuart Anderson, who has worked for the Iowa DOT for more than 30 years, recently was honored by a national organization of state transportation departments.

States want proof they’ll get built due to concern that regular ratepayers could be stuck with the bill to build unnecessary power plants.

Alliant Energy will start construction on a new power plant in Cedar Rapids — called the Cedar River Generating Station and sited within the boundary of Alliant’s Prairie Creek Generating Station — next year, aiming to have the plant fully operational by mid-2027.

Iowa’s highways are built to withstand a wide variety of vehicles, from compact cars to eighteen-wheeler semis and large farm equipment. They do have their limits, though, and according to the Iowa State Patrol, that limit is about 80,000 pounds.

As plans to replace the Burlington Street Bridge progress, the entities involved in the project are determining how to balance different community priorities for the main connection between the west side of Iowa City and downtown.

Cedar Rapids will use settlement funds from a class action lawsuit to pursue the design and potential construction of an aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) well to hold drinking water in deep storage.

Work continues on the northbound exit and entrance ramps from Interstate 380.

The temporary closure will accommodate pavement marking painting.

Iowa outpaces all other states with the highest number of bridges classified as being in poor condition, but the Iowa Department of Transportation’s work over the past 15 years to decrease the number of poor-rated bridges has led to big improvements for state-owned bridges.

The Iowa 9/Wisconsin 82 bridge over the Mississippi River between Lansing and Crawford County Wisconsin reopened Monday. The bridge was closed May 17 after sensors detected movement in the bridge. A two-week closure is expected later this summer to help facilitate construction of a new bridge.