Iowa Department of Transportation

The master plan will guide land use, such as for residential and commercial, transportation, infrastructure, economic development, and environmental stewardship over the next several decades, according to the city.

The interchange with I-80 and Middle Road is being reconstructed by the Iowa Department of Transportation to accommodate more traffic driven by housing, retail, and business development near the TBK Bank Sports Complex.

The city has added sewer north of Interstate 80 to service acres to the north of the interstate in preparation for future development once the interchange work is complete.

At the workshop, Participants will learn about the planning process, share their ideas and priorities, and help establish a vision and goals for the future of the I-80 Middle Road.

Well, it is been a very challenging intersection for many years, a very busy one.

And it's part of, you know, Iowa DOT, US 69 going north, you know, Grand is.

As you mentioned, there's going to be some limited amount of work being done this fall yet.

Some people might have noticed that in the northeast intersection or northeast corner of the intersection, there's been some little bit of grading done to allow for some pole relocation.

Skeletal remains found in 1988 on the western side of Iowa remained unidentified for nearly 40 years before they were deemed to be those of a man from across the state.

Workers with the Iowa Department of Transportation discovered the remains of a person on August 30, 1988.

Register reporting at the time said the remains were found in a culvert next to U.S. Highway 20, about a half mile east of Correctionville.

The autopsy at the time estimated the remains were a man between the ages of 30 and 60, with a time of death between 1971 and 1975.

But again, that's coming, that's progressing well.

Iowa DOT project, we talked about Highway 218 last week.

That has completed their HMA work.

And now because their plant has moved off of Iowa Avenue, we've started doing a little bit of disking out there to get the shoulders prepared for us to do a shoulder pull.

And finally, there's a break in a nearly 40-year-old cold case in Iowa.

In 1988, an Iowa DOT worker found skeletal remains in Woodbury County.

This year, forensic genetic genealogists identified the man as Clarence Ames, originally from Dubuque, who died sometime between 1971 and 1975.

Investigators aren't sure why or how Clarence Ames ended up in Woodbury County, but his remains were taken back to Dubuque by his only known living relative so he can be laid to rest with his family.

One is just outside, but it affects us with our HMA batch plant that they have.

But the Iowa DOT project on Highway 218 will hopefully be wrapping up HMA work tomorrow.

And again, that depends on how much rain we get, but if not, they should be wrapping up their asphalt work there, and then they would start tearing down their plant.

and it would be most likely next week, but it could be the following week, and then moving that in, or they have another plant that they're in the process of moving from what I got for an update.

So once the plant gets out, then we'll be working with the Iowa DOT for the repairs to Iowa Avenue that we need to take a look at.

So the section that they were utilizing, there are some costs that we have to do repairs to that road.

So we'll be coordinating that with them and meeting with them to try to make our game plan on what we want to do.

The base product, in addition to the sensors, comes with vehicle detections and vehicle counts.

When it comes to the data that can be obtained, this is the one that gets the closest to Iowa Department of Transportation traffic counts, Applin said.

In addition to the cameras, the company also offers 24-7 support.

Applin also said its timeline on replacement equipment, in his experience, has been days instead of an industry standard of 6 to 12 weeks.