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Anyone who has traveled on an Iowa interstate knows there is a significant amount of freight traveling by truck through the state. Not all of that freight travels on the interstate and that some of the trucks cannot fit on some Iowa roads?
The Iowa DOT's Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is teaming up with the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Cedar Rapids Walking School Bus committee to discuss walking school bus programs.
A walking school bus is just like a big yellow school bus but without the bus. There is an adult (driver) who walks along a route and “picks up” students who continue on the walk to school.
Since the Iowa DOT unveiled its online driver’s license and I.D. card online renewal system last July, 58,086 (as of March 6) Iowans have jumped online instead of jumping in a car, saving a trip to the driver’s license station. Mark Lowe, director of the Iowa DOT’s Office of Driver Services, said, “Online renewals are 12.69 percent of all renewals from that time period. We estimate that customers have saved more than $1.2 million in time and travel expenses by using the online service.”
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.
What would your wish be? Gary Kretlow, design technician specialist in the Office of Design, makes wishes come true for sick kids with life threatening illnesses in central Iowa.
Information supplied by the Office of Employee Services