{"id":12417,"date":"2020-10-12T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12417"},"modified":"2020-10-10T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T19:20:49","slug":"notes-for-october-2020-letting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/notes-for-october-2020-letting\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes for October 2020 letting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I noticed about the <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/contracts\/biddocuments\/october2020\">October 2020 DOT bid letting<\/a>, scheduled for next week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One sign project is concentrated in two areas: Cedar Rapids and Jones County. The former is replacing a lot of gore signs (the &#8220;EXIT&#8221; where you take the offramp, now formatted to include a large exit number), plus signs on the lower deck of the 5-in-1 bridge. Many BGSs whose poles snapped during the derecho (as they were designed to do) remain bent over today. I don&#8217;t know if they can be restored to their upright and locked position. The latter focuses on US 151 exits.<\/li>\n<li>Another is a mass replacement of roadside signs along many highways in southwest Iowa.<\/li>\n<li>A stoplight is going in on US 69 at NE 118th Avenue (Polk County name)\/NE 54th Street (Ankeny name). You could call this a &#8220;pro-active&#8221; or &#8220;pre-emptive&#8221; stoplight because the sprawl has not reached this intersection&#8230;yet. This is just a mile south of the junction with <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia87.html\">former IA 87<\/a>, the road to Elkhart, and 3 miles north of 1st Street and the pre-1970 extent of Ankeny.\n<ul>\n<li>Mostly unrelated but not quite: I salute Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1tb1ngTYl60\">Daddy Won&#8217;t Sell the Farm<\/a> at the northeast corner of US 69 and IA 160 (Ankeny Boulevard and Oralabor Road) on the other side of Ankeny. A Kwik Star just ate up the east half of the plot \u2014 part of that chain&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/business\/2019\/04\/25\/kwik-star-expanding-into-des-moines-metro-convenience-store-gas-station-ankeny-hours-address-prices\/3578111002\/\">push into the Des Moines metro<\/a> \u2014 and there&#8217;s a Fareway and Pizza Ranch across the street, but that little house and block of timber are there until the very end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I noticed about the October 2020 DOT bid letting, scheduled for next week: One sign project is concentrated in two areas: Cedar Rapids and Jones County. The former is replacing a lot of gore signs (the &#8220;EXIT&#8221; where you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/notes-for-october-2020-letting\/\">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-12417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","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=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}