CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) —

In 2021, the federal government gave Iowa a $1.5 million safety funding grant.

Since then, the state’s changed signing and pavement markings in hundreds of places, and so far, the Iowa Department of Transportation said it’s working, KCRG reports .

In the last four years, the Iowa DOT has gone to 340 different locations to change signs and road markings, with the goal of preventing wrong-way crashes.

Some of the work is a pretty simple concept: put more signs up, make road markings bigger.

“With the signs, not only are they larger, but they’re angled to the driver that we want to see them,” said Willy Sorenson, DOT special projects manager.

Sorenson is a special projects engineer with the Iowa DOT.

“When you add a couple of ‘Do Not Enters’ on one side, a

See Full Page