{"id":11133,"date":"2019-07-09T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2019-07-03T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:06:32","slug":"relocated-ia-17-will-maintain-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/relocated-ia-17-will-maintain-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocated IA 17 will maintain corners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plans for changing IA 17 east of Boone are available. The meeting is Thursday at United school.<\/a>\u00a0The final decision was the “Red plan” from a set of proposals three years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the maps, IA 17 will continue straight north for an additional mile from where it meets E41 today, then go east on 200th Street. There will be a bridge for 17 across E41 and the railroad tracks with a arcing connector. In addition, 200th Street will be paved west from new 17 to the Boone city limits.<\/p>\n

This marks the end of a state intersection that has been around since at least 1930. Its exact history before that, though, is murky. I know that the Lincoln Highway did not<\/em> parallel the railroad on the south side for a 2-mile segment between R Avenue and T Avenue; instead, it crossed the railroad and used 205th Street, then continued east to Ames via 210th Street. I don’t<\/em> know if that was changed in the 1920s, because it would have involved building a new road for the end result of moving the place where the highway crossed the railroad.<\/p>\n

The new 17’s east-west mile will be half a mile north of that original segment, and thus the known Lincoln Highway segment between 205th Street and the Jordan elevator will drop from the state rolls.<\/p>\n

Notably, this plan does not make any special accommodations for the farm field on the southeast corner of the 17\/E41 intersection, which is used as the parking lot for the Farm Progress Show<\/a>\/Central Iowa Expo grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plans for changing IA 17 east of Boone are available. The meeting is Thursday at United school.\u00a0The final decision was the “Red plan” from a set of proposals three years ago. According to the maps, IA 17 will continue … 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-11133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133","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=11133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11142,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions\/11142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}