I guess ramming your head into a brick wall\/plain old obstreperousness\u00a0sometimes DOES work.<\/p>\n
The Iowa DOT is prepared to allow an intersection with future four-lane US 61 and a side road south of Wapello, the Muscatine Journal<\/em> reported nearly two weeks ago<\/a>. This is what (or reasonably close to what) Louisa County supervisors and local residents have been demanding.<\/a><\/p>\n The plan, according to the story, involves a “J-turn” intersection.\u00a0A J-turn is\u00a0similar to a Michigan Left<\/a>, except that no traffic on the cross road is allowed to go straight through. They have to cross two lanes of traffic to get to the U-turn, then cross two lanes again.<\/p>\n The J-turn concept was floated and shot down at both the US 65\/IA 330 intersection, now an interchange, and the US 30\/US 218 intersection, soon to be an interchange. This would be the first J-turn location in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I guess ramming your head into a brick wall\/plain old obstreperousness\u00a0sometimes DOES work. The Iowa DOT is prepared to allow an intersection with future four-lane US 61 and a side road south of Wapello, the Muscatine Journal reported nearly two … Continue reading