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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1983
Page
14
Iowa Department of Transportation approves a schedule moving many 1984 road projects into the 1984 season aided by increased federal funds from a gas tax increase and other channels. The plan, totaling 287 million dollars for the year ending June 30, may still be adjusted before December.
The 1984 program increases funding to 225 million with most going to road reconditioning and bridge work. Counties list specific projects including preservation, widening, right of way purchases, and bridge replacements on highways 30 61 218 149 and 80 among others with some paving set for 1985 and completion dates through 1986.
The Iowa Department of Transportation approved a six month contract worth 136000 with the University of Iowa to excavate potential artifacts along a planned road route. It is the 14th such contract since 1970 and begins now with a new six month term set to start January 1, 1984. Federal law requires investigations to protect historical objects. The commission also noted twelve known dig sites in the Great River Road path in Louisa County.
Fourteen year old Todd Zeitler son of Richard and Karen Zeitler of Mount Sterling Wis died Monday afternoon when the tractor he was driving at his father’s business in Seneca tipped and pinned him beneath the machine. Zeitler was five miles south of Mount Sterling in southwestern Wisconsin.
The Iowa Department of Transportation will add rumble strips and larger stop signs at the Highway 151 and 13 intersection after two fatalities when a truck struck a car on June 7. Costs for rumble strips run 1500 to 2000 dollars per approach.
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