Category: Project Updates

Weather permitting, Forevergreen Road between Kansas Avenue and Park Road/Jasper Avenue will be closed on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, so crews can drive piers for the interchange bridge at Interstate 380. The closure is expected to begin at 9 a.m. and last through the day. (This work was rescheduled from Tuesday, Feb. 20.) Drivers are…

City hosts open house to highlight major infrastructure improvements planned for 2018

Posted on: February 9, 2018

This year, North Liberty will make major improvements to key infrastructure, including Ranshaw Way (Highway 965). Once completed, these infrastructure upgrades will increase transportation capacity, add pedestrian connectivity, provide recreational amenities and replace aging infrastructure in our growing community. To learn more about these projects, the public is invited to an open house on March 7…

Weather permitting, Forevergreen Road between Kansas Avenue and Park Road/Jasper Avenue will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, so crews can pour pilings for the new interchange bridge at Interstate 380. The closure is expected to last the entire day. Drivers are asked to use caution around the work site, allow extra travel time,…

Update: weather will delay this work. It has been rescheduled for Jan. 18 and 19. Weather depending, the intersection of Walnut and Front streets will be closed on Jan. 15 and 16 Jan. 18 and 19, 2018. The closure is necessary to a contractor can remove two large trees. The closures will only last during…

Work on water infrastructure updates continues, including the excavation and boring required to install new water mains from well site in Quail Ridge Park and to the new plant on Front Street. Weather permitting, Ricklefs Excavating will resume underground work on Birch Court starting the week of Jan. 8, 2018. The work will take about…

In the coming days, sidewalk closures along Zeller Street will be required so crews can continue installing raw water main between new well sites at Quail Ridge Park and the new water plant on Front Street. The first is expected to be as early as Thursday, Nov. 9, and will effect sidewalks along Zeller Street,…

In the spring of 2018, North Liberty plans to rebuild Front Street between Zeller and Cherry streets. This project is the first local project being funded by state’s 10¢ increase to road-use (gas) tax, which the city council plans to invest in the streets in North Liberty’s original neighborhood. This project will replace Front Street…

Weather permitting, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, westbound Penn Street, between Penn Court and Interstate 380, will be reduced to one lane. The lane reduction is required so crews can replace some planting in the road’s median. Drivers are asked to use caution around the work site, allow extra travel…

Weather permitting, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, the Penn Street I-380 overpass will be reduced to a single lane with flaggers. The lane reduction is necessary so crews can install cameras to allow Iowa Department of Transportation staff to monitor traffic flows for its projects at Forevergreen Road and at…

North Liberty Road, which has been paved in two phases in preparation for the opening of Liberty High School, has been reopened. The second phase of North Liberty Road improvements paved and realigned the formerly gravel road from East Penn Street to Oak Lane. Work will improved sight lines for drivers and improved the road…