Interstate 74 West

I-74/U.S. 6 westbound enter the Hawkeye State below the basket-handle, true arches.

06/21/22

The auxiliary lane from the River Drive entrance ramp in Moline, Illinois drops at Exit 4 for the couplet of U.S. 67 along Grant and State Streets west of Downtown Bettendorf.

06/21/22

Exit 4 descends to U.S. 67 (Grant Street) by the Bettendorf Riverfront. Straddling the Mississippi River from the Centennial Bridge in Davenport to Le Claire, U.S. 67 doubles as an Iowa Great River Road. Measuring 57 miles in Iowa, U.S. 67 travels 1,560 miles overall from Sabula, Iowa to Presidio, Texas.

06/21/22

U.S. 67 previously separated along the couplet of Grant and State Streets below I-74/U.S. 6. Accommodating the new Mississippi River Bridge, U.S. 67 was reconfigured into a six lane boulevard with two-way traffic between 13th and 15th Streets.

05/23/18

14th Street formerly extended north from Exit 4 and U.S. 67 northbound along State Street. The street was truncated north to Brown Street due to the realignment of I-74/U.S. 6 eastward onto the Mississippi River Bridge.

06/18/22

Rising onto the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, I-74/U.S. 6 advance north alongside Kimberly Road (old U.S. 6) to Exit 3 for Middle Road and Locust Street. The overhead for Exit 3 was installed between June 18 and June 21, 2022.

06/21/22

Lincoln Road spans I-74/U.S. 6 ahead of the diamond interchange (Exit 3) with Middle Road in Bettendorf.

06/21/22

Joining I-74/U.S. 6 with Panorama Park, Middle Road arcs northeast across Bettendorf to Interstate 80 at Exit 301. Westward into Davenport, Middle Road becomes Locust Street at Kimberly Road (old U.S. 6) nearby.

03/28/16

Continuing north through an S-curve, I-74/U.S. 6 separate at the succeeding exit for Spruce Hills Drive. Parallel Kimberly Road ties into U.S. 6 across from Elmore Avenue.

06/18/22

Confirming markers for I-74/U.S. 6 west at Duck Creek.

06/21/22

Kimberly Road leads U.S. 6 west from Spruce Hills Drive across Davenport. Named after state senator D.W. Kimberly, Kimberly Road opened on December 14, 1936 to replace older alignments westward on State Street and the Centennial Bridge respectively.¹

06/18/22

U.S. 6 (Kimberly Road) constitutes a commercial arterial west to U.S. 61 Business at Northpark Mall. Points of interest for Exit 2 include Kaplan University, the Family Museum and Trinity Medical Center At Terrace Park.

05/28/18

Interstate 74 extends 2.5 miles north from U.S. 6 (Spruce Hills Drive) to I-80. A six-ramp parclo interchange (Exit 1) joins I-74 with 53rd Street in one mile.

06/21/22

I-74 runs between commercial corridors along Elmore Avenue in Davenport and Utica Ridge Road in Bettendorf on the ensuing stretch north from U.S. 6.

06/18/22

53rd Street constitutes a busy commercial arterial leading west to U.S. 61 (Brady Street / Welcome Way) in Davenport and east to 18th Street in Bettendorf.

06/21/22

Construction from 2010 to November 2012 expanded the previous diamond interchange at 53rd Street. 53rd Street was also widened to six lanes from Elmore Avenue to Corporate Park Drive. Loop ramps opened from 53rd Street to I-74 on June 15, 2012.

06/21/22

The final confirming marker for Interstate 74 west precedes mile marker 1. The route originates 417 miles to the southeast in Cincinnati, Ohio.

06/21/22

Forthcoming I-80 passes through north Bettendorf east before crossing the Mississippi River between Le Claire and Rapids City. Westward I-80 continues to Davenport Municipal Airport (DVN) south of Eldridge before meeting I-280/U.S. 6 in northwestern Davenport.

06/21/22

I-74 passes under Veterans Memorial Parkway, a corridor first envisioned in 2005. Construction on the arterial route east from I-74 to Forest Grove Road ran through Summer 2017.²
Interstate 80 joins the Quad Cities area with Iowa City and Des Moines to the west and the south suburbs of Chicago via I-55 north or I-94 west.

06/21/22

Traffic partitions into ramps for Interstate 80 at a trumpet interchange. I-80 travels 307 miles statewide between Council Bluffs and Le Claire.

06/21/22