Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Transportation

Proposal would require the Iowa DOT to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, to confirm citizenship for those seeking or renewing driver's licenses.

A car ferry moves people and vehicles between Lansing, Iowa and Wisconsin on the Mississippi River, but business owners say they still are feeling the effects of the closure of the Black Hawk Bridge, a year and a half before the replacement bridge is set to open.

The population of Lansing may have doubled Friday morning as the community and onlookers watched a planned implosion of the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River.

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.

Iowa researchers are looking to identify “hot spots” of vehicle-wildlife collisions and examining what steps could be taken to reduce them.

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.

The 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa will meet its end this month in a planned implosion that’s being coordinated by the Iowa and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation.

Two speed enforcement cameras in Cedar Rapids that were nixed last year — along with most traffic enforcement cameras around the state — by the Iowa Department of Transportation will soon start issuing citations again after an appeal to the DOT by the Cedar Rapids Police Department was approved more than a year after it was submitted.

Two weeks after the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge was closed permanently — and more than a year until the new bridge will open — a car ferry began service Monday, transporting motorists, pedestrians and others across the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa.

The Iowa State Patrol, National Weather Service and the Iowa Department of Transportation said in a webinar on Monday that Iowans should start preparing for winter weather and poor driving conditions even before snow hits the ground.

As the government shutdown nears the one-month mark, Iowa airports, particularly those in more rural areas, are paying close attention to what may happen with an essential source of federal funds set to lapse in the middle of next month.

The Black Hawk Bridge across the Mississippi River at Lansing in northeast Iowa will close for good Monday morning — more than a year before its replacement is scheduled to open.

The City of Hiawatha recently received nearly $800,000 in state funds to support the construction of a new trail connection at Interstate 380 and Emmons Street.

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.