{"id":10119,"date":"2018-07-23T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2018-07-22T00:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T05:11:59","slug":"218-construction-detoured-through-van-horne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/218-construction-detoured-through-van-horne\/","title":{"rendered":"218 construction detoured through Van Horne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10120\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/218_30_sb.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/218_30_sb.jpg 575w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/218_30_sb-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 16, 2017:<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/us218.html\">original south end of US 218<\/a>, at US 30, which has always been the Lincoln Highway here (westbound lanes). The four-lane will be shifted very slightly for the new interchange.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Construction on the US 30\/218 interchange begins today, changing an original US highway endpoint and a historic Lincoln Highway junction. A bridge will carry 218 over 30, while ramps are constructed in the northwest and southeast corners. A pioneer cemetery and the historic Youngville Cafe will be spared (although I wonder how, or if, Youngville will be open the rest of the year.)<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa DOT says 218\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2018\/07\/detour-for-us-218-at-us-30-in-benton-county-begins-at-9-am-monday-july-23.html\">traffic will be detoured on E44 and V66<\/a>, through Van Horne, to get to 30. While on the map it might seem to make more sense to go through Newhall instead, that way would have a curve in the county road and this one has a regular intersection instead. (Also, it means a left turn onto the two-lane part of 30, instead of the four-lane part, for southbound traffic.)<\/p>\n<p>I would say this means any non-Vinton traffic\u00a0from\/to the northwest\u00a0to\/from 30 would be better off using IA 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2017: The original south end of US 218, at US 30, which has always been the Lincoln Highway here (westbound lanes). The four-lane will be shifted very slightly for the new interchange. Construction on the US 30\/218 interchange &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/218-construction-detoured-through-van-horne\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10121,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions\/10121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}