King: We're Fourlaning Hwy 20!

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KING: WE'RE FOURLANING HWY 20!

Congressman Steve King today announced that the Iowa DOT Commissioners have included an additional 12 miles of new four-lane U.S. Highway 20 in their amended Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan, commonly referred to as the Five Year Plan. The amended Five Year Plan now includes 46 new miles of four-lane U.S. 20 and was made official during the DOT Commission meeting in Muscatine earlier today.

"For decades, many of us in Northwest Iowa have been working together to four-lane Highway 20," said King. "We turned hope into a promise. A promise has now become a plan and soon it will be a reality."

The Five Year Plan now includes $48 million in funding for four-lane U.S. Highway 20 from U.S. 71 east to County Road N-14 (four-lane grading in 2011 and four-lane paving in 2013). This addition will complete the Moorland to Early section of four-lane U.S. 20 on new right of way. All other work on this section was included within the previous Five Year Plan.

"We will see a completed four-lane highway from Moorland to Early by the end of 2013. Less than half the distance to the west four-lane connection, the Moville goal, will remain by the end of 2013," said King. Preliminary activities are underway to set-up later construction on the Early to Moville segment. "The Iowa DOT has worked well with the communities along the corridor and has made a big commitment to the total project," said King.

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