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.
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?
Quote from: edwaleni on October 29, 2024, 10:41:20 AMStill 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.