{"id":12572,"date":"2020-12-04T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2020-12-02T23:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:44:37","slug":"some-weird-plans-for-us-69-in-des-moines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/some-weird-plans-for-us-69-in-des-moines\/","title":{"rendered":"Some weird plans for US 69 in Des Moines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US 69, aka East 14th Street in Des Moines, likely has more stoplights between IA 5 and I-35\/80 than it does in the rest of the state combined. The DOT wants to rebuild many intersections on the route, and the plans go beyond adding extra turn lanes. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.iowadot.gov\/iowadot\/PIM\/113020US69PolkPD2.pdf\">See the PDF here.<\/a>\u00a0The release of this plan is the &#8220;refine schematic alternatives&#8221; stage with a final report in summer 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.iowadot.gov\/iowadot\/PIM\/113020US69PolkPD1.pdf\">according to this timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North of I-235, it&#8217;s straightforward: FIVE roundabouts, the US 6\/Euclid Avenue intersection <em>not<\/em> among them.<\/li>\n<li>There are four options for the Maury Street intersection, which is the first one south of the viaduct\/railroad tracks\/MLK Parkway. One of them involves the parkway, adding right-in\/right-out connector ramps that sort of function as a folded-diamond interchange.<\/li>\n<li>The Park Avenue intersection has a &#8220;displaced left turn&#8221;, whose diagram I&#8217;m not sure I follow. It looks like southbound traffic wanting to turn left would have a stoplight before the main intersection, then go down the <em>right<\/em> side of the northbound lanes before finally turning left.<\/li>\n<li>Army Post Road &#8220;B&#8221; also involves one of these turns, on eastbound Army Post to northbound 69. The &#8220;A&#8221; option is nearly status quo, but adding space between left-turn and main lanes.<\/li>\n<li>Army Post Road &#8220;C&#8221; has some weird pavement bulges in it. Once you strip away the surroundings, it&#8217;s clear that the &#8220;J-turn&#8221; has reared its ugly head again. This plan brings it to an urban area, putting <em>three<\/em> stoplights in the path of a driver wanting to turn left from 69 onto Army Post (<em>through<\/em> the main intersection, then a U-turn at what presently are the nearest driveways on either side, <em>then<\/em> right at the main intersection again). It also blocks off Bloomfield Road.\u00a0The J-turn was vividly shot down at both the US 65\/IA 330 intersection and US 30\/US 218 intersection. An interchange isn&#8217;t possible here \u2014 although, now that I&#8217;ve seen a SPUI crammed into the IA 58\/Viking Road intersection, it might almost be worth a shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2020\/11\/us-69-online-meeting.html\">An online meeting is available.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US 69, aka East 14th Street in Des Moines, likely has more stoplights between IA 5 and I-35\/80 than it does in the rest of the state combined. The DOT wants to rebuild many intersections on the route, and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/some-weird-plans-for-us-69-in-des-moines\/\">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-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","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=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12577,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions\/12577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}