Get ready, motorists: a new type of freeway is coming your way in Council Bluffs
By Tim Winters / Special for Iowa Department of Transportation
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A section of a new dual, divided freeway will open along the merged portion of Interstates 80 and 29 in Council Bluffs on Wednesday. The group of lanes on the outside will be for traffic that needs to exit in the Bluffs. The inside lanes, called express lanes, will be for through traffic.
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Motorists will follow a 3 and 3 lane configuration through Council Bluffs.
Chris Christen
A dual, divided freeway through Council Bluffs will be the first of its kind in the area. The closest model is in Chicago.
By Tim Winters / Special for Iowa Department of Transportation
After more than a decade of construction along the overlapping segments of Interstates 80 and 29 through Council Bluffs, motorists soon will be navigating a new type of freeway.
The dual, divided freeway, which the Iowa Department of Transportation calls the “first in the region,” features two separated segments of thr…
A section of a new dual, divided freeway will open along the merged portion of Interstates 80 and 29 in Council Bluffs on Wednesday. The group of lanes on the outside will be for traffic that needs to exit in the Bluffs. The inside lanes, called express lanes, will be for through traffic.