{"id":12211,"date":"2020-07-09T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12211"},"modified":"2020-07-08T00:37:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T05:37:24","slug":"viking-road-interchange-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/viking-road-interchange-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Road interchange complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavement markings and cleanup on IA 58 at the Viking Road interchange in Cedar Falls were to be done earlier this week, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2020\/07\/pavement-marking-work-will-close-iowa-58viking-road-overnight-tuesday-july-7.html\">DOT press release<\/a> says. I was a skeptic <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/viking-road-interchange-with-ia-58-how\/\">that it could be done<\/a>, even when they said it <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/ia-58-will-go-under-viking-road\/\">would be a tight SPUI<\/a>. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-relatedly, in the northeast corner, the &#8220;Doughy Joey\u2019s Peetza Joynt&#8221; restaurant, <a href=\"https:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/cedar-falls-council-oks-plans-for-rec-center-locker-room-remodeling\/article_9c30cc0c-7aff-5d6c-868e-8cd14b8b4be4.html\">is going to be torn down<\/a> for a Dupaco Credit Union building. This location opened in 2010 and then became the only site after the <a href=\"https:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/business\/local\/doughy-joeys-closes-downtown-waterloo-branch\/article_6d984de4-bb45-516c-8e51-4c23af516538.html\">downtown Waterloo location closed<\/a> in 2014, according to the <em>Waterloo Courier<\/em>. The Courier in April was unable to ascertain the future of the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavement markings and cleanup on IA 58 at the Viking Road interchange in Cedar Falls were to be done earlier this week, a DOT press release says. I was a skeptic that it could be done, even when they said &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/viking-road-interchange-complete\/\">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-12211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211","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=12211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12219,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211\/revisions\/12219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}