Sanborn, Iowa — If your commute involves Highway 18 between Sanborn and Hartley — it’s about to get significantly longer for a while.
Iowa Department of Transportation Planner Dakin Schultz tells us about it.
(as said:)”We’ve got a bridge replacement project on US 18 over Waterman Creek. That’s 1.3 miles west of County Road M12. The bridge that’s being replaced was built in 1959. It’s a 125-foot by twenty-eight-foot concrete slab bridge. It’ll be replaced by a new 201 by 44 [foot] concrete beam bridge. So it’ll be quite a bit longer and wider.”
He gives us an idea of the timeline and how to navigate the area.
(as said:)”The project will start the sixth which is Monday. There will be a detour for the construction season. There will be a detour for US-18 traffic and it will follow US-59 to County Road B24 to County Road M12 back to US-18. That’s eight miles out of distance of the normal travel. The project was awarded to Christensen Brothers of Cherokee, Iowa. [It’s a] one-point-nine-million-dollar bridge replacement.”
Unless there are weather or supply chain delays, Schultz says they hope to wrap up the project by October 1, 2020.
