{"id":10401,"date":"2018-10-31T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2018-10-29T02:12:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:12:43","slug":"evil-has-come-to-fort-dodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/evil-has-come-to-fort-dodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil has come to Fort Dodge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOctober 20, 2018:<\/strong> …but when the roadgeek turned around from this view on 2nd Avenue South in Fort Dodge, the street had vanished! It was a ghost sign, disembodied from the route it once served!<\/em><\/p>\n

While doing an online scouting of a route for my return from from the US 20 ceremony, I saw an unfamiliar squiggle in the map. I zoomed in and saw<\/p>\n

*ominous tone*<\/a><\/p>\n

a roundabout in downtown Fort Dodge. The city is calling it the “Cross-Town Connector”<\/a> but it dis<\/em>connected Second Avenue and left a former Fareway and now-closed gas station behind (see above). To the east, there’s another roundabout, at 1st Avenue South and South 12th Street.<\/p>\n

The Iowa DOT gave up Business US 169<\/a>, aka IA 926<\/a>, formerly the easternmost part of IA 7 and part of US 20’s route through the city, in 2014. And this is what the city did with it \u2014 set up a jog after the Karl King Viaduct that takes the business route a block closer to the courthouse via a roundabout. The sign showing the turn from South 8th Street onto 1st Avenue South, instead of 2nd, was moved, but there is no sign on eastbound 1st at 8th, leaving a crucial turn un-marked.<\/p>\n

(The modification took place in 2015<\/a> but some little birdies travel faster than others.) The Fort Dodge Highway Chronology<\/a> will have to be re-edited for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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