{"id":11859,"date":"2020-02-11T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T02:48:12","slug":"waukons-downtown-intersection-gets-stoplight-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/waukons-downtown-intersection-gets-stoplight-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Waukon&#8217;s downtown intersection gets stoplight overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11860\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_76_sb.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_76_sb.jpg 580w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_76_sb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><em><strong>September 7, 2006:<\/strong> This photo looking south clearly shows the offset intersection of IA 9 and IA 76 in Waukon. Until 1968, IA 9 turned right (west).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The intersection at the core of Waukon has always been a bit off. There&#8217;s a 60-foot jog where Spring Avenue becomes Allamakee Street at Main Street, the kind of thing that would have been ironed out a LONG time ago if it had been nearly anywhere except where it is. Traffic flow changed when IA 9 was rerouted, so that route now runs north-south through the entire town, and must take the jog at that intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the DOT reconfigured the stoplight assemblies and turn lanes at that intersection, <a href=\"https:\/\/waukonstandard.com\/articles\/2020\/02\/05\/changes-only-stoplight-intersection-allamakee-county\">the <em>Waukon Standard<\/em> reports<\/a>. The article goes into detail about those changes, which could have benefited from a diagram (not that a weekly paper has a graphics desk, of course). The kicker is at the end:<\/p>\n<p><em>As several have stated in regard to adjusting to the new traffic light and intersection changes, \u201cAt least we don\u2019t have a round-about!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I went through Waukon twice, almost exactly three years apart, but haven&#8217;t been back since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 7, 2006: This photo looking south clearly shows the offset intersection of IA 9 and IA 76 in Waukon. Until 1968, IA 9 turned right (west). The intersection at the core of Waukon has always been a bit off. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/waukons-downtown-intersection-gets-stoplight-overhaul\/\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859","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=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}