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Highway 17 bridge over Iowa River closed for bridge repairs.

Madrid, Iowa - The bridge decking will be replaced on the Iowa Highway 17 bridge that traverses the Iowa River in between Granger and Madrid. Road closing starts this Sunday and runs through at least August, 2010. There is a detour if you route around it using Iowa Highways 210 and 141. For further information check the 511 Iowa DOT site.  On that site you will first select the bandwidth capacity of your Internet access system: cable versus dial-up and then click on the location shown on the Iowa map. The DOT site is the 511 Iowa Org site.

To determine the traffic counts, meaning cars per day, for a specific point visit the Iowa DOT site. Annual average daily traffic is the key phrase to search. To use the regular road map that you can obtain at any Iowa interstate highway rest area click on the pdf version of the Iowa map. If you want to view traffic counts click on the 2006, this is the latest version of the annual average daily traffic counts. You may be wondering why you'd need this information. Well, if you use that bridge, the one they are closing for work, you'll need to know how bad the detoured route is going to get. For that you'll add up the AADTC for each route.

In this instance I want to adjust what I just said. Instead of the state map let's use a city or a county map. Granger is in Dallas County. The latest data is 2008; and that's good enough. The traffic count on Highway 17 is 5,300; which will be a lot for that area. You can see the entire traffic flow map for Granger by following this link. Madrid is in Boone County and by following this link you will connect the dots. It shows 6,600 on Highway 17. If you average those two you'll have a pretty solid number of the Highway 17 traffic being rerouted.

The last part of this little exercise is to figure out the detour route and its traffic count. Going back to the 511 site we will look for detour information. Using the future information link at the top of the page you can determine the detoured route changes.

Here is the legend from the city and county annual average daily traffic count maps.

Jump to County: A-B C D-G H-K L-M O-S T-W
Jump to City: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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