{"id":11481,"date":"2019-10-23T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2019-10-22T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T04:50:48","slug":"us-30-r70-exit-meeting-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/us-30-r70-exit-meeting-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"US 30-R70 exit meeting this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of either converting US 30 to a freeway between Ames and Nevada or at least reducing the number of intersections, the R70 intersection east of I-35 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2019\/10\/us-30-story-county-oct-24.html\">going to be turned into an interchange<\/a>. There is a meeting Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/102419US30StoryPD1.pdf\">but the map is already online (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exit will be a bit to the east of existing R70 (which goes south to Cambridge) and frontage roads will be constructed. Interestingly, while the plan includes a new road between 590th and 580th streets, the direct intersection of 30 and 590th is <em>not<\/em> marked for closure. Five years ago, the Story County Board of Supervisors <a href=\"http:\/\/amestrib.com\/news\/county-board-opposes-highway-30-intersection-closings#sthash.69jpwx3D.dpuf\">objected to a complete freeway conversion<\/a>, which would block 590th and thus also Vetter Equipment Company. Perhaps a closure there would come only if\/when another exit is built to the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of either converting US 30 to a freeway between Ames and Nevada or at least reducing the number of intersections, the R70 intersection east of I-35 is going to be turned into an interchange. There is a meeting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/us-30-r70-exit-meeting-this-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-11481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481","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=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}