{"id":1086,"date":"2012-01-18T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2012-01-18T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:27:52","slug":"dallas-county-rest-areas-time-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/dallas-county-rest-areas-time-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas County rest area&#8217;s time limited?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2012\/01\/18\/fha-approves-waukee-interchange-at-alices-road-interstate-80\/\">The Des Moines Register reports<\/a> that the Federal Highway Administration has approved plans for the Alice&#8217;s Road interchange on I-80. It is scheduled to open within two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Alicebridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1087\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Alicebridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Alicebridge.jpg 700w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Alicebridge-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the recently built Alice&#8217;s Road bridge as seen from the rest area in mile 118 in July 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/ortho.gis.iastate.edu\/client_nhd.cgi?zoom=5&amp;x0=429173&amp;y0=4602399&amp;layer=2&amp;action=zoomin&amp;pwidth=600&amp;pheight=450&amp;x=283&amp;y=203\">Here&#8217;s an aerial view.<\/a> It seems like it would be difficult to put an interchange there, let alone &#8220;open hundreds of acres for development,&#8221; without removing the rest area.<\/p>\n<p>If you zoom out from that view, you can see how open the area is&#8230;for now. But just as urban sprawl has consumed the I-35 rest area near Ankeny, this one is likely doomed as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Des Moines Register reports that the Federal Highway Administration has approved plans for the Alice&#8217;s Road interchange on I-80. It is scheduled to open within two years. This is the recently built Alice&#8217;s Road bridge as seen from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/dallas-county-rest-areas-time-limited\/\">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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","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=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}