Janesville, Iowa Avenue of Saints Interchange

[splashflash]

Thanks to Iowa Highway End for posting thus excellent summary of the interchange and frontage road work occurring on US 218. 

https://iowahighwayends.net/blog/2024/09/janesvilles-north-connection-to-218-changing/?origin=serp_auto

The completion of this IDOT construction work will extend the freeway north from Janesville to the Waverley freeway bypass.  The Avenue of Saints is slowly being upgraded to a freeway.  Another interchange opened a year ago further north on the stretch just west of Floyd.

It would be nice for the Avenue of Saints to become I-53.  The number 53 was used for Herbie, an old Walt Disney children's movie.

[edwaleni]

Still a large number of rural, ground level crossings that would need to be closed before reaching any I number. Do you know the number it is at right now between Mason City and Waterloo?

[iowahighways]

Still a large number of rural, ground level crossings that would need to be closed before reaching any I number. Do you know the number it is at right now between Mason City and Waterloo?

I counted 37, not including driveways, north of Waverly. And I'm not aware of any further plans to remove intersections along that stretch.