{"id":12224,"date":"2020-07-15T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2020-07-13T23:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:41:23","slug":"roundabout-plan-renewed-for-urbana-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/roundabout-plan-renewed-for-urbana-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundabout plan renewed for Urbana corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2016, after a multi-fatality crash at the IA 150 curve west of Urbana, the DOT started looking at ways to change the intersection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2016\/10\/iowa-150-benton-county-november-2-1.html\">The first was a simple, obvious intersection<\/a>. Traffic to and from Urbana (old IA 363) would have the right of way through the intersection. Then, in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2017\/09\/iowa-150-benton-county-september-26.html\">a roundabout was thrown into the mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with the curve replacement scheduled for 2022, the latest proposal has junked the intersection for a refined roundabout. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2020\/07\/iowa-150-benton-county-online-meeting.html\">There is an online public meeting<\/a>\u00a0that allows for comments but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rOkr5QKrSug\">here&#8217;s the direct YouTube link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the time frame, it&#8217;s probably too late to ask them to go back to the regular intersection. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2016, after a multi-fatality crash at the IA 150 curve west of Urbana, the DOT started looking at ways to change the intersection. The first was a simple, obvious intersection. Traffic to and from Urbana (old IA 363) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/roundabout-plan-renewed-for-urbana-corner\/\">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-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","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=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12225,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions\/12225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}