Iowa Department of Transportation
government agency in Iowa, United Stateswww.iowadot.gov
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Sep 11, 2026
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
But in Iowa, the state has been reintroducing native plants along roadsides for decades.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Harris is the chief landscape architect in roadside development for the Iowa Department of Transportation.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
She's excited to point out all the different wildflowers growing next to an I-35 exit.
Rachel HarrisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's obviously the compass plant, but there's also the, uh, false indigo, baptisia, rattlesnake master, black-eyed Susan.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
But in Iowa, the state has been reintroducing native plants along roadsides for decades.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Harris is the chief landscape architect in roadside development for the Iowa Department of Transportation.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
She's excited to point out all the different wildflowers growing next to an I-35 exit.
speaker_19SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's obviously the compass plant, but there's also the, uh, false indigo, baptisia, rattlesnake master, black-eyed Susan.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
But in Iowa, the state has been reintroducing native plants along roadsides for decades.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Harris is the chief landscape architect in roadside development for the Iowa Department of Transportation.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
She's excited to point out all the different wildflowers growing next to an I-35 exit.
Rachel HarrisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's obviously the compass plant, but there's also the, uh, false indigo, baptisia, rattlesnake master, black-eyed Susan.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
But in Iowa, the state has been reintroducing native plants along roadsides for decades.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Harris is the chief landscape architect in roadside development for the Iowa Department of Transportation.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
She's excited to point out all the different wildflowers growing next to an I-35 exit.
Rachel HarrisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's obviously the compass plant, but there's also the false indigo, baptisia, rattlesnake master, black-eyed Susan.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
But in Iowa, the state has been reintroducing native plants along roadsides for decades.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
Rachel Harris is the chief landscape architect in roadside development for the Iowa Department of Transportation.
Rachel KramerCORRESPONDENT
She's excited to point out all the different wildflowers growing next to an I-35 exit.
Rachel HarrisSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's obviously the compass plant, but there's also the false indigo, baptisia, rattlesnake master, black-eyed susan.
KenNARRATOR
Project continues.
KenNARRATOR
Iowa Department of Transportation officials will fully open the Julian Dubuque Bridge over the Labor Day weekend as an extensive repair project continues.
KenNARRATOR
The bridge will be open in both directions Friday, September 4th through Monday, September 7th, according to an online announcement.
KenNARRATOR
Work on the bridge remains on schedule and is expected to be finished in late September.
Alex HoksbergenGUEST
Um, but yeah, no, that was, uh...
Alex HoksbergenGUEST
There's a reason that car and me only had about a one-year relationship, 'cause about three months after owning it, the Iowa DOT told me I couldn't drive on the road for a year.
Alex HoksbergenGUEST
I got barred driver's license-
Kent BoucherHOST
Oh
Kent MockHOST
Advanced contracts, such as for tree removal, have already begun.
Kent MockHOST
The Iowa Department of Transportation expects to, Illinois Department of Transportation rather, expects to go out for bid for a construction contract in November and start construction in the spring, which will last about two years.
Kent MockHOST
There will be some closures at the ramps on I-74 and John Deere Road during construction, but the plan is for the two busy thoroughfares to have two lanes of traffic opened each direction for the duration of the project.
Kent MockHOST
The idea of a diverging diamond is somewhat new and controversial for some drivers.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
Many older residents of Lansing, of Lansing lament the loss of the old bridge's iconic design and its, quote, "singing," end quote, a reference to the hum produced by the steel grate road surface.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
Quote, "I know people that work on both sides of the river that use that bridge to commute to work," says Clayton Burke, the Iowa Department of Transportation's project manager for the Blackhawk Bridge.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
"There are people that use it to get to medical services like dental services or the clinic, and there's the grocery store in Lansing, and people used it to get to their loved ones." End quote.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
Those hardships will continue until the new bridge is completed, expected by spring two thousand twenty-seven.
Ralph CreweGUEST
But that kind of bridge demolition, I think, is really remarkable.
Ralph CreweGUEST
We actually did a video about a similar... bridge demolition that happened on the border of Illinois and Iowa a few years ago the interstate 74 bridges there were actually twin bridges that were demolished out there explosively and it's just I got to actually interview somebody from Iowa DOT and and get to sort of dig into what it takes to do this and it's just I don't know it's it's something that really blows my mind you know it takes a lot of work to build a bridge it actually takes a lot of work to take a bridge down as well
Kathy EmmonsHOST
Okay, so dangerous, yes? Yes.
Ralph CreweGUEST
Not if you do it correctly, right? It can be, right? Like you're using high explosives to take down like thousands of tons of material.
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