{"id":10414,"date":"2018-11-05T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10414"},"modified":"2018-10-29T23:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T04:50:42","slug":"i-80-has-a-new-max-lane-count-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/i-80-has-a-new-max-lane-count-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"I-80 has a new max lane count in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT reports that I-80 is\u00a0open to five eastbound lanes on the Missouri River bridge. (The press release said Oct. 26<\/a>, weather permitting;\u00a0the weather did not permit, and\u00a0a tweet moved it to the night of Oct. 28-29<\/a>.) That was part of a project by the Nebraska Department of Transportation. Lane reductions happen almost immediately, though, with the exit to I-29 north and merging east of the 24th Street exit.<\/p>\n

The five lanes across the Missouri \u2014 which as late as the middle of the last decade were only two<\/a> \u2014 will be appropriate when the Council Bluffs Interstate Project is finished and I-80 splits into three local and three express lanes in each direction. Westbound bridge traffic remains striped for three lanes , making a total of eight. When that changes, I-80 will have its biggest Iowa capacity there instead of Des Moines or Iowa City, both of which have eight-lane portions.<\/p>\n

Long-term plans may result in other segments of I-80 in Iowa with five lanes in one direction. I-80 in much of Omaha has a whopping 13 total lanes<\/em>\u00a0(seven westbound, six eastbound) for a short segment between US 75 and 42nd Street, 10 for much of the rest in the metro, and as of 2012, six on the entire 41-mile segment between NE 370 and Lincoln<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT reports that I-80 is\u00a0open to five eastbound lanes on the Missouri River bridge. (The press release said Oct. 26, weather permitting;\u00a0the weather did not permit, and\u00a0a tweet moved it to the night of Oct. 28-29.) That was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10414","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=10414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10420,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10414\/revisions\/10420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}