End of US highway 151 |
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1986-present
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This photo was in Madison, looking southwest on Washington Avenue (southbound US 151). Today US 151 traffic is directed to bypass the Capitol area by turning left on Blair Street, but historically that route continued straight ahead all the way to the Capitol Square:
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On the opposite side of the Capitol, US 151 originally continued west via State Street, Gilman Street, and University Avenue...
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Both maps show US 151 ending on University at Park Street, where it junctioned US 12 (and later US 14). This location is on the UW campus:
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US 151 junctions with eastbound US 10 at 10th Street (which is one-way running southbound), and then there was an "End" assembly posted just past 9th Street:
Visible in the distance is the signage at 8th Street, which serves as westbound US 10 -- that intersection marks the actual endpoint of US 151. Today, one block behind the camera, eastbound US 10 runs to the right. After a few blocks that route turns east (ahead) on Madison Street, and then angles north (left) to the Lake Michigan car ferry dock (which happens to be situated directly behind the Anheuser-Busch malting facility visible in the background of the photo above). But historically, westbound US 10 was to the left on 8th, while eastbound went straight ahead on Washington. Right at the big Budweiser silos, the route jogged north one block on 7th, and then resumed eastward on Jay Street, directly to the ferry dock:
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It is unclear whether US 151 was ever overlapped with US 10 to the ferry dock, although that map gives no reason to think so.
The signage shown below is for the benefit of drivers coming west on US 10: |
After the US 30 bypass opened in 1981, US 151 was extended southwestward to the interchange with the new US 30. This photo looks southwestward toward US 30-218. Today this interchange marks the end of Business US 151, which replaced mainline US 151 through Cedar Rapids and Marion upon its 1989 rerouting via Bertram:
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In 1986, US 151 was extended southwest out of Cedar Rapids: along former IA hwy. 149, past the Amana Colonies, to its south end at interchange 225 on I-80. (Twice that year Iowa tried to get AASHTO to approve the extension, but for some reason they denied it. It was not approved by AASHTO until 1996.) Here is the exit to the south beginning, as viewed from eastbound I-80:
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Not far ahead is the first confirming marker. The junction with US 6 (which provides access to the main Amana Colonies) is about six miles ahead. But this commercial area situated right at the freeway interchange is marked on some maps as "Little Amana":
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Research and/or photo credits: Nathan Edgars; Jon Enslin; Jason Hancock; Mark Handler; Peter Johnson; Karin and Martin Karner; Bruce Kasprzyk; Jeff Morrison; Alex Nitzman; Dale Sanderson; James Schecter; Michael Summa
Page originally created 2000;
last updated Nov. 24, 2021.
last updated Nov. 24, 2021.