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.
The project, decades in the making, could be finished years sooner if awarded the $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation
The existing westbound Interstate 80 to southbound U.S. 218 ramp will close permanently on Monday at 11 p.m. The DOT also shared additional short-term traffic changes.
The bridge, the first of its kind in Iowa and eligible to be added to the National Register of Historic Places, will be torn down in April
While making the renewal process safer in the pandemic for driver’s license holders and Iowa DOT staff, the extension also opened a window for scammers trying to steal people’s identity.
After a law change, the Iowa DOT sees huge percentage increase in interest from parents who want to to teach their children’s driver’s education, but the overall numbers are still small.
Monthly Road Use Tax Fund distributions were down in July, but year-to-date are nearly $25 million, the state reported.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Construction will begin Tuesday on the Ellis-Edgewood roads intersections in northwest Cedar Rapids. Improvements will include patching …
Goal to keep below 300 in 2021 but already the traffic death toll on Iowa roads so far this year is 119.
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