LINN COUNTY — It’s easy to hear grumbling about Cedar Rapids’ city streets, but not so much so about Linn County’s rural roads. That may be in part because the Linn County Board of Supervisors and the county’s Secondary Road Department have been using 90 percent of the revenue generated by the county’s piece of [...]

  Darkness will force Linn County plows off the roads at 4 p.m., to return 12 hours later, County Engineer Steve Gannon said Thursday. “Once it gets dark it’s hard for them to stay out on our system,” Gannon said. It should take three to four hours to clear major paved roads once plows head [...]

Charged with maintaining and replacing many more bridges than most states, highway officials in Iowa try to keep up with new developments. Take Mehaffey Bridge, for example. Initial bids last March on a new span carrying Mehaffey Road over Coralville Lake between North Liberty and Solon came in some 50 percent over the project’s $6 [...]

Linn County will count vehicles traveling along dusty Old River Road, county supervisors decided Wednesday in response to a resident’s request. But it may not mean the county-funded dust control residents hope for. The supervisors voted unanimously to conduct a traffic count requested by Mark Mentzer. But County Engineer Steve Gannon is skeptical that traffic [...]