Road closures continue in southeast Iowa
Iowa Department of Transportation
AMES, Iowa – Feb. 2, 2011 – 11 p.m. – Conditions on Iowa roadways continue to deteriorate, as the latest round of winter weather wallops a majority of the nation. The Iowa Department of Transportation is now reporting additional roads in Iowa as closed.
Roads closed since the last update
Iowa 2 – Appanoose County (Iowa 202 to Iowa 5)
Iowa 63 – Mahaska County (Oskaloosa and New Sharon)
Iowa 83 – Pottawattamie and Cass counties (Walnut to Marne)
Ongoing road closures
U.S. 6 – Pottawattamie and Cass counties (Oakland to Iowa 48)
U.S. 6 – Pottawattamie (Oakland to I-80)
U.S. 34 – Des Moines, Jefferson and Henry counties (Burlington to Fairfield)
U.S. 218 – Benton County (La Porte to U.S. 30)
Iowa 1 – Washington County (Brighton to Kalona)
Iowa 2 – Lee and Van Buren counties (Fort Madison to Iowa 1)
Iowa 2 – Wayne and Appanoose counties (Corydon to Centerville)]
Iowa 16 – Lee and Van Buren counties (Iowa 1 to U.S. 61 – Denmark to Hillsboro)
Iowa 16 – Van Buren, Wapello and Davis counties (Iowa 1 to Iowa 34 – Agency)
Iowa 22 – Washington and Muscatine counties (Nichols to Kalona)
Iowa 23 – Mahaska County (Iowa 149 and Iowa 92 – near Fremont to Oskaloosa)
Iowa 44 – Shelby and Harrison counties (U.S. 59 to U.S. 30)
Iowa 78 – Henry and Washington counties (U.S. 218 to Brighton)
Iowa 92 – Washington and Louisa counties (West Chester to Columbus Junction)
Iowa 130 – Scott County (Count Road Y-40 to County Road Y-30 – Plainview to near Maysville)
Iowa 136 – Clinton County (Clinton to U.S. 61)
Roads previously listed as closed now listed as travel not advised
Iowa 163 – Polk and Jasper counties (U.S. 65 to Iowa 92 – Altoona to Monroe)
If not closed, nearly all roads in the eastern two-thirds of Iowa Iowa are being reported by the Iowa State Patrol as “travel not advised.” With high winds expected to continue, road conditions are expected to remain hazardous well into Wednesday morning.
Information on road conditions and closures is available from a number of sources including www.iowadot.org, www.511ia.org and on Twitter by following the Iowa DOT at http://twitter.com/iowadot.
