History
After the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1968, the mileage which would eventually be manifested in over 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of interstate highway was allocated to the states. Iowa received the smallest allocation, one half-mile (0.4 km), for the southern bypass of Sioux City. On the 1973 state highway map, the Iowa State Highway Commission showed the planned route on the state map for the first time. Interstate 129 was opened on November 22, 1976.
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