It is late Fall here in Coralville. Thanksgiving Day is this week. I swear the it was the 4th of July just a couple weeks ago. Must be me getting older...It is...Progress on 1st avenue has been HUGE the past week. You realize that once there is frost in the ground the paving company has to stop. THAT is why they poured a TON of cement last week. They really went to it! This project started early last Spring and is getting close. They will NOT be done with all the fancy stuff and the landscaping until Spring, BUT the street will open, all lanes, north and south in the next few days. The Clear Creek bridge work will go on 'forever', so to speak. Don't look for that to be completed for awhile. Do you remember the bridge PRIOR to the bridge we have now! Ha! 2 lane, steel beams along the sides, and wooden planks.. Yep, about 1970 or so, that is what we had until then.. This bridge and creek have actually been a pain in our 'butt' forever. The bridge that will be completed in the Spring is the 5th bridge at this location. Coralville has to have one here to accomodate crossing Clear Creek. With THIS new bridge you will be able to walk/ride/roller blade underneath along the trail system. Should be neat. I will not be roller blading, but I WILL walk the trail. Sounds neat. We will have access right to the confluence of Clear Creek and the Iowa River. This will be cool and I look forward to it.
Take a look at the X-Mas lighting along the Strip. This is pretty nice. Here is a fun one.. When I was a kid here in Coralville, we had Christmas lights too. We had ONE string of lights in town. ONE! They were put up annually by the City. They stretched across 1st avenue at the south side of the old Clear Creek bridge. ONE string. They were regular sized light bulbs in red, green, yellow. Good old X-Mas spirit. It was all we had and everybody was happy. Guess things have progressed a little since then. Nice to chat, make sure you say HI!