Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Transportation

Although the proposed moratorium is dead, its sponsor believes lawmakers who supported it sent a signal on behalf of Iowa landowners who are opposed to the use of eminent domain to secure private land for pipeline projects.

Starting May 3, 2023, the federal government will require a driver’s license or ID card with the “REAL ID” mark for air travel and when entering a federal building.

Bridge Under the Bridge is in search of a new location after Linn County notified the nonprofit it needed to move from its spot under the Eighth Avenue SW bridge. The nonprofit has provided free hot meals to people there since the 2020 derecho.

Messages on electronic signs are designed to make motorists correct bad behavior and drive more safely, but they can draw a driver’s mind from the road, said Joshua Madsen, an assistant accounting professor and behavioral scientist at the University of Minnesota who co-authored the study published last week

Public transit agencies in Eastern Iowa are seeing their ridership numbers slowly increase but challenges remain. Agencies are grappling with workforce challenges and how to best meet the needs of riders.

Construction on the multiyear interchange reconstruction project in Johnson County continues on schedule with closures and traffic shifts anticipated in the coming months. The Iowa Department of Transportation said 2021 was a “very productive year.”

Portions of Tower Terrace Road will close near I-380 for the spring and summer this week.

In Iowa, the average gas price Thursday was $3.924, but topped $4 in many rural areas according to AAA. However, Iowa lawmakers say they’ve heard little talk of suspending state motor fuel taxes -- 30 cents a gallon state tax on gas and ethanol, and 32.5 on diesel fuel.

As a result of congressional approval of the bipartisan infrastructure package, Iowa DOT officials expect the five-year highway program to grow from $3.6 billion to about $4 billion.

For Iowa, the congressional bipartisan infrastructure package means $431,828,580 over five years or about $86.2 million a year. That’s about 35 percent of the $240 million a year the Iowa Department of Transportation has budgeted in its 2022-26 Five-Year Program.

There were 353 traffic deaths in Iowa in 2021, according to a preliminary figure from the state transportation department. That is the highest number of traffic fatalities in Iowa since 2017, when there were 402, and a nearly 6 percent increase over the previous year.

But at least for a quite a while, you’ll still need to keep the hard copy just like now.

The new twin spans of the Interstate 74 bridge between Iowa and Illinois are being delivered more than a year late and $74 million over bid.

Iowa will receive roughly $5 billion over five years in new federal funding under the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.

$400,000 from state will be used to pave approximately 3 miles of the trail east of Highway 13 from Waldo’s Rock Park to Oxley Road. The trail was constructed a few years ago with a limestone surface in anticipation of hard surfacing it when funding was secured.