(Ames)– The Iowa Transportation Commission Tuesday approved the 2011-2015 Iowa Transportation Improvement Program.
The five-year program has been expanded to include Highway 86 between Highway nine and the Minnesota border.
Total amount of state and federal funding anticipated to be available for the five-year period is about 2.3 billion dollars.
In addition to Highway 86, other projects included in the five-year program for northwest Iowa include Highway 75 in Plymouth county and Highway 20 in Sac, Calhoun and Woodbury counties.
The commission also Tuesday approved a RISE, or Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy grant for Rock Valley. The city will receive 530-thousand dollars to construct turning lanes on Highway 18 on the east side of town and to construct a road to serve a proposed expansion of the Kooima company’s metal fabrication plant and to assist in developing a 14 acre industrial development site.
