The Iowa Highways Photo Gallery

Burlington

	The posted end of the now-former IA 406, which followed Agency Road, in West Burlington shared a signpost with a trailblazer for traffic along intersecting Gear Avenue. More photos of IA 406 as an active highway can be found on its terminus photo page.
	One of many markers commemorating US 34 as the 34th Infantry Division Memorial Highway with its "red bull" emblem can be found here, approaching the interchange with US 61. (As for the sign behind it, "Burlington" used to be in the green space above "Regional Airport." It was stripped off after the airport was renamed the Southeast Iowa Regional Airport, but that isn't noted on the sign.)
	This larger-than-normal US 34 trailblazer is at the on-ramp from southbound US 61. Similar signs used to be on the on-ramps from Mount Pleasant Street to the US 34 freeway when it ended there, but they were taken down after the bypass of Middletown and Danville opened in November 2005.
	Something is missing on this sign on eastbound US 34 in this March 2000 photo. Oh, yes, the exit arrow. As of November 2005, it was still missing.
	A shot of the US 34 freeway in Burlington, approaching the interchange with the now-former IA 99 (its south end). Note that once again, like on I-74 in Bettendorf and US 20 in Dubuque, "Illinois" is the control "city" for eastbound US 34. The empty green space below "Illinois" used to read "Toll Bridge," but that text was taken down when the free Great River Bridge replaced the old MacArthur Bridge in 1993. Most freeways in Iowa, including US 34, have milepost-based exit numbers (much like Interstate highways do). Also note the County Road 99 marker on the Main Street sign -- IA 99 (and IA 79 in southwestern Des Moines County) has kept its number as a county road. Even though the road became County Road X99 in October 2005, the sign had not changed as of November.
	Before westbound US 34 crosses the Mississippi, this sign for County Road 99 -- which may be an Illinois DOT sign -- is visible. When IA 99 was a state marker, an IA 99 marker and a "NORTH" banner were present on the sign; although the "NORTH" was stripped off, the County Road 99 marker was not centered. (Another photo of the Great River Bridge can be seen on the Mississippi River bridges page.)

Some pedestrian lights in downtown Burlington stray from the traditional "DONT WALK" and "WALK," substituting "DONT" and "LEAVE CURB" instead.

	Some street signs in downtown Burlington's historical district, like these at 6th and Washington Streets, are in a different font than usual.
	Here is Burlington's famous "Snake Alley" -- a block of 6th Street between Columbia and Washington Streets -- looking uphill; this street is known for making five half turns and two quarter turns in one block. It is closed to motor vehicles, but a bicycle race is held on the alley every summer.
	And here's Snake Alley looking downhill.
	No, this isn't England or any place where you drive on the left -- this reversed two-way traffic sign (as of March 2000, and still standing in November 2005) is on 7th Street looking southward from Jefferson Street.