{"id":11927,"date":"2020-03-03T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11927"},"modified":"2020-03-01T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T06:12:50","slug":"black-hawk-county-joins-historic-20-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/black-hawk-county-joins-historic-20-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hawk County joins Historic 20 project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/June14\/03\/57_old218_eblgs.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>June 3, 2014:<\/strong> First Street in Cedar Falls, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia5758\/ia57E.html\">presently IA 57<\/a>, is the original route of US 20 through that city. This is at the intersection with Franklin\/Center streets, old US 218.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have plugged Bryan Farr&#8217;s work to promote the original route of US 20 occasionally for the last few years (wait, is <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/sioux-city-journal-interviews-us-20-traveler\/\">five and a half<\/a> still &#8220;a few&#8221;?). He has had great success in getting city and county governments to sign on with his vision, occasional state-level kiboshes notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Black Hawk County supervisors <a href=\"https:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/historic-highway-project-gains-support\/article_dc42d65b-1ab6-5057-9bcf-523837710152.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\">unanimously voted to support Farr&#8217;s efforts<\/a> and mark the original route of 20 through the county. That route is the one shown on my <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/waterloo.html\">Waterloo-Cedar Falls Highway Chronology page<\/a>, although there will be at least one minor deviance to account for the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 3, 2014: First Street in Cedar Falls, presently IA 57, is the original route of US 20 through that city. This is at the intersection with Franklin\/Center streets, old US 218. I have plugged Bryan Farr&#8217;s work to promote &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/black-hawk-county-joins-historic-20-project\/\">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-11927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927","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=11927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}